PPA S.A.: Successfully Holds Annual General Meeting – Gross Dividend of €1.896 per Share Approved

PPA S.A. successfully held its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders today, in accordance with the applicable procedures, with shareholders representing 83.40% of the Company's share capital participating in the meeting.

The Venezuelan crude trade has moved

The Venezuelan crude trade has moved from being a relatively narrow and politically constrained flow into one of the most important incremental demand drivers for the crude tanker market in the first half of 2026.

Costis J. Frangoulis: Today marks the end of an unforgettable chapter

Today marks the end of an unforgettable chapter.

BIMCO and ICS report warns of potential future shortage of officers

The Seafarer Workforce Report 2026 from BIMCO and the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) launched on Thursday forecasts that given the growing demand for STCW certified officers, there will be a need for an additional 113,735 officers by 2030 to operate the world merchant fleet.

New ICS Maritime Barometer Report reveals geopolitical instability as defining force shaping global shipping

The ICS Maritime Barometer Report 2025–2026, launches today by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) at the organisation’s Shaping the Future of Shipping Summit in Rome, reveals an industry adapting to an increasingly complex operating environment shaped by geopolitical instability, regulatory uncertainty, and economic volatility.

Greece 2027: A Geopolitical Strategy of Survival and Upgrading in an Unstable World

By Iakovos (Jack) Archontakis

Senior Maritime Strategy Consultant - Chartering Executive & TMC Shipping  Commercial Director

Greece in 2027 will not truly be decided at the ballot box, no matter how insistently everyone pretends otherwise. The decision will have been made long before, in that silent space where societies stop asking “who governs?” and begin to ask, almost without noticing, “what kind of country are we when no one is watching?”