Greece

Despite the coronavirus crisis that has affected the entire world, Greece remains among the top five ship-owning nations -- along with China, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong -- with Greek ship owners controlling 20.67 percent of global shipping capacity...

Fifteen Greeks are included in this year's top 100 most influential people in global shipping, according to the 2018 Lloyd's List. Greeks also have the largest number of individuals on the list per nation; next are the Chinese shipowners,...

The Union of Greek Shipowners (USG) approved a proposal by its president Theodoros Veniamis on Monday, to extend an agreement with the State to make a voluntary tax contribution in 2018. The exact size of the one-off payment was not...

Thirteen Greek shipowners are featured in LLoyd's list of the "100 Most Influential People in Shipping" for 2014. Greek shipping is on top again as the Greek-owned fleet is the largest in the world in gross tonnage, ahead of China and...

A young man was arrested on Wednesday in the Vyronas neighborhood of southeast Athens as part of a police operation to stop an impending terrorist attack against the Greek capital. According to Greek Police, the man arrested is Andonis Stamboulos, born in...

The Greek minister of public order and the chief of the Greek Police have announced that, following anti-terrorism investigations carried out in a garage in the Vyronas area of Athens, evidence has been uncovered of an impending terrorist attack planned by Nikos Maziotis...

According to Posidonia Exhibitions SA, Greek ship-owners set a new record of orders to shipbuilding companies in 2013. The number of orders made by Greek ship-owners is estimated at 25 percent of the global order book. In fact, last year...

The Finance Ministry tax initiative that tripled the capacity tax on all vessels in Greece has caused the intense reaction of the Greek Shipowners Union. The president of the union, Theodoros Veniamis, described the three-year tax that applies to all ships...

The British newspaper Lloyd’s List has published its list of the top 100 most important entrepreneurs in the world of shipping. John Angelicoussis, head of Angelicoussis Shipping Group, was featured in the top five, while fourteen other Greeks were...

Fourteen Greek ship-owners and shipping senior managers are included in Lloyd's List with the 100 Top Businessmen in the world. It is noteworthy that two of them, George Economou and John Angelicoussis, are among the five first. Angeliki Frangkou, Peter Livanos,...

Strapped for cash in a crushing economic crisis, Greece is planning to go after its vaunted nearly tax-free shipping industry with a cargo tax on merchant marine shipowners that the government said could bring in $258.5 million from 2013-16. Greece’s...

The Union of Greek Shipowners (EEE) donated to the country's Coast Guard 10 state-of-the-art high-speed boats that will be built in Greece based on an Icelandic design, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Friday. The statement was made following a...