The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Greek Branch organized, on 2nd of November, its 7th Annual Forum honoring with the British Embassy in Athens the 100 years of presence and success of the Institute. The title: « Navigating through the economic storm. Setting a route in difficult times ». The forum was held at the Eugenides [...]
The Cyprus flag has a great perspective to expand further in the next few years as has already been one of the greatest and most quality flags in shipping. Maritime Cyprus Conference outcome which marked a large participation proving once again that it is one of the most popular shipping conferences in the globe. In [...]
ABOUT 900 guests saw some of Greece’s leading shipping personalities, companies and service organizations honoured in a glittering gala dinner at the Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel to announce the winners of the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards for 2011. The packed audience for the 8th annual Greek Shipping Awards, held under the auspices of Lloyd’s List, [...]
RINA is celebrating its ties with Greece on its 150th anniversary. Formed in Genoa, Italy, in 1861 as a ship classification society, RINA is today a global multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural company with growing business in Greece and the surrounding region. Speaking at a reception to mark the event held on board the SS Hellas Liberty [...]
The 2nd Safety4Sea Forum, a PRO BONO event, successfully completed on 5th of October 2011 in Eugenides Foundation, Athens, covering a wide range in QHSE issues. The event has been well attended by over 340 delegates at the venue representing more than 170 companies, plus more than 100 persons watching live streaming. The event organized [...]
Consistent to its fleet growth policy with newbuilding and modern second hand bulk carriers Nasdaq listed Star Bulk Carriers has recently named two newbuilding vessels at Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction in Subic Bay at Philippines. The two capesizes are the 179.600dwt “Star Borealis” which was delivered and began a 10 year charter with STX [...]
After 7 years of successful presence as Regional Manager of RUTTER of Canada, Antonis Magoulas decided to expand his activities and set up in January 2011 a new company, Sea Ergon Marine, based in Piraeus. The new company is a distributor and service provider for many high quality manufacturers. He told us that Sea Ergon [...]
Without doubt it was the most prestigious event of the year gathering a large number of participants to attend shipbrokers forum & gala. The forum had the title “Crisis? What kind of crisis?” Panel coordinator was Mr. Nigel Lowry (Lloyd’s List). The president of the Hellenic Shipbrokers Association Mr. John Pachoulis opened the event and [...]
An innovative credit agreement was concluded between SafeBulkers and Japanese governmental financial institutions amounting to US $122.4 million to finance the acquisition of three Japanese Post-Panamax class newbuild vessels. The vessel acquisitions from Japanese shipyards relate to one vessel which was delivered in 2010 and two vessels which are expected to be delivered in 2011 [...]
“PIREAS” is the traditional Global Shipping Event that is organized by the Hellenic Shipbrokers Association (H.S.A) biannually since 1991, in Greece. The “PIREAS 2011” will take place on the 16th& 17th of June 2011 under the auspices of the Ministry of Commercial Maritime of Greece, the Tourism Ministry of Greece, the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, [...]
