More than a thousand delegates from the shipping industry gathered last month at the Hilton Athens for the Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum, a day of speeches and panel discussions on private equity, ship recycling and financing.
The packed reception hall was a testament to how the nation’s ship owners still dominate the industry decades after Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos ruled the waves. The Hellenic fleet is the world’s most valuable at $106 billion, according to VesselsValue.com, accounting for 19 percent of the world’s tankers.
