GREEK SHIPPING AWARDS 2015 the Winners Contents
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
GREEK SHIPPING AWARDS 2015 The Winners Contents AWARDS&WINNERS 11 Dry Cargo Company of the Year GREEK Neptune Lines 13 Tanker Company of the Year SHIPPING Olympic Shipping and Management AWARDS 15 Passenger Line of the Year Dodekanisos Seaways 2015 17 Shipbroker of the Year WRITER Cass Technava Maritime Nigel Lowry 19 Shipping Financier of the Year DESIGN PRODUCTION Graphic Resolutions Eurobank AWARDS MANAGEMENT Event Producer - Peter Attwater 21 Technical Achievement Award Event Director - Nigel Lowry Prisma Electronics Event & Guest Co-ordination Office Tel. +30 210 42 91 195 23 Award for Achievement in Safety or Environmental Protection email: [email protected] Hellenic Coast Guard and Frontex SPONSORSHIP & ADVERTISING SALES 27 Piraeus International Centre Award Janet Wood +44 7512 224782 Bureau Veritas Hellas email: [email protected] 29 International Personality of the Year EVENT PRODUCTION 360 Event Agency - www.360.com.gr Andreas Chrisostomou PHOTOGRAPHER Photoshop Company 31 Seafarer of the Year Tel. +30 210 72 17 666 Capt. Dimitrios Tsitsimelis ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS Nikos Kokkalias 33 Award for Achievement in Education or Training AWARD TROPHIES University of the Aegean Raoul Bollani - www.bollani.it Creations for Andriana Paraskevopoulou 35 Ship of the Year designed by ‘Hellas Liberty’ Maria Konidi Tel. +30 210 36 44 838 - www.maria-konidi.gr 37 Lloyd’s List / Propeller Club Lifetime Achievement Award and Konstantinos Mellis by Laskos Aristidis Alafouzos Tel. +30 210 76 65 501 - www.konstantinosmelis.com 39 Lloyd’s List Intelligence Big Data Award Andriana Paraskevopoulou’s Jewellery Danaos Management Consultants and Danaos Shipping Co. Ltd. provided by Kassis - Chopard Tel. +30 210 92 49 823 – www.kassis.net 41 Next Generation Shipping Award VENUE Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel, Athens Maria Angelicoussis 43 Greek Shipping Newsmaker of the Year Lloyd’s List Nikolas P. Tsakos Editorial, Advertising and Subscriptions inquiries 45 Greek Shipping Personality of the Year Informa Business Information Christchurch Court, 10-15 Newgate Street, George M. Logothetis London EC1A 7AZ Tel. +44 (0) 20 7017 5000 [email protected] Lloyd’s is the registered trademark of the 3 Introduction: Beat that! Full house hails the honorees for 2015 society Incorporated by the Lloyd’s Act 1871 by the name of Lloyd’s. 7 Event Sponsor: A long relationship with Greek shipping Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. 9 Special Guest & Charity Donation Reproduction of the editorial or pictorial content by any manner without written 24 Personalities & Pictures: Greek Shipping’s Dinner of 2015 permission of the publisher is prohibited. 47 Quotes from the Ceremony: What they said Published by Informa 48 The Judging Panel: ‘Dream team’ of 2015 features fresh faces GREEK SHIPPING AWARDS 2015 1 The Winners Introduction The 2015 Awards dinner drummed up a huge audience; (inset) China Classification Society sponsored the traditional toast to the health of the Greek shipping industry, proposed by Zhou Haisheng, general manager of CCS’s Athens branch, with event hosts Nigel Lowry and Andriana Paraskevopoulou Beat that! Full house hails the honorees for 2015 DRUMMERS beat out a steady rhythm in the Despite mostly adverse shipping market The Greek Shipping Awards have shown in ballroom of the Athenaeum InterContinental conditions – the tanker market being a notable the past that they care not only for the major hotel in Athens - coordinated with video of exception – Greek shipping continues to names and this was again evident in the jury’s performances at three of Greece’s foremost operate with its own steady pulse and the selection of Dodekanisos Seaways as maritime heritage spots – Cape Sounion, the glittering event highlighted both the industry’s Passenger Line of the Year. The 15 year-old port of Piraeus and the restored museum ship overall resilience as well as some of the year’s outfit provides a vital inter-island link in the Hellas Liberty – to welcome guests to the 12th top individual personalities and stories. eastern Aegean. annual Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards. “In this difficult period for our country and as The event, supported by a host of sponsors They drummed guests back to their seats after economic activity is suffering, shipping still has led by overall Event Sponsor ClassNK, also the interval, too, a necessary measure in view the dynamism, and the sustained response to its recognised several of Greece’s best-known of another record attendance – of 1,160 challenges, to retain its competitiveness,” said shipowning names. guests – although the venue has been filled to Mr Dritsas in a welcome speech. “The Greek George M. Logothetis, Nikolas P. Tsakos and capacity for the last three years of Greek government supports the competitiveness of veteran owner Aristidis Alafouzos were shipping’s ‘Dinner of the Year’. Greek shipping,” he underlined. winners of major personal awards. Shipping minister Thodoris Dritsas, Olympic Corporate bragging rights for shipping Maria Angelicoussis of the Angelicoussis gold medallist and world champion companies went to Neptune Lines, the Shipping Group was named the inaugural windsurfer Nikolas Kaklamanakis and many expanding car carrier operator that won Dry winner of the brand-new New Generation of the country’s leading maritime business Cargo Line of the Year, and Olympic Shipping Shipping Award, one of two new awards personalities were among those who and Management, part of the legendary Onassis introduced for 2015. The other was the witnessed the presentations of the Awards Group, which was named Tanker Company of Lloyd’s List Intelligence Big Data Award that for 2015 first-hand. the Year for an especially active year. went to Danaos Management Consultants and GREEK SHIPPING AWARDS 2015 3 The Winners Introduction ABS hosted the event’s welcome cocktail reception. Vassilios Kroustallis, ABS regional vice president eastern Europe addressed hundreds of guests Celebrity line-up: (from right) former marine minister and Piraeus Port Authority chief executive George Anomeritis, ministry general-secretary Ioannis Theotokas, shipping minister Thodoris Dritsas, Olympic and World Champion windsurfer Nikolas Kaklamanakis, with wife Nanouyia Carouzou Danaos Shipping Co. for their ‘Waves’ fleet Achievement in Safety or Environmental toast to the industry’s health, proposed and performance system. Protection for their efforts to protect lives in sponsored by China Classification Society. Andreas Chrysostomou, the new director of the eastern Aegean as thousands of refugees A special presentation was made to the Cyprus Department of Merchant Shipping, attempt the dangerous crossing from Turkey classification society DNV GL for a decade of took the sole award reserved exclusively for to Greece. sponsoring the Greek Shipping Awards – the non-Greeks. So far this year the Hellenic Coast Guard has fifth entity to have supported the event for The Seafarer of the Year Award, traditionally rescued more than 93,000 refugees, including 10 years as a sponsor. one of the high spots of the awards 16,500 infants and children, in more than For the 2015 Awards, the 17 categories were ceremony, went to bulker master Captain 2,700 search and rescue missions. specially introduced by star guests and Dimitris Tsitsimelis for a successful rescue at Lani Fortier, country director and global members of the event-team: Fotini Darra; sea in January 2015. deputy field director of the International Dimitris Papadimitriou; Katerina Panoussi; Other award-winners included Eurobank, Refugee Committee, was among several other Nafsica; Alexis Papahelas; Rania Lampropoulou; Cass Technava Maritime, Bureau Veritas speakers who addressed the urgency of the Nikolas Kaklamanakis; Michael Psyrras; Helena Hellas, Prisma Electronics, the University of refugee crisis in the Aegean. Paparizou; Thanos Mikroutsikos; Maria Salliari; Livia Calza’; Maria Damanaki; Dimitri Megas; the Aegean and the restored 1943-built Olympic legend Nikos Kaklamanakis Liberty ship, Hellas Liberty. Peter Attwater; Andriana Paraskevopoulou; presented a donation on behalf of Lloyd’s and Nikos Boudouris. Despite a fair helping of glamour and an upbeat List to ‘Argo’, the charity supporting mood that was commented on by many children with special needs in the families of attendees, the event did not go untouched by Greek seafarers. Greece’s wider challenges and social difficulties. Guests enjoyed a pre-dinner cocktail SAVE THE DATE: The 2016 Greek Shipping The Hellenic Coast Guard and EU border reception hosted by the American Bureau of Awards will take place on Friday, December 2, agency Frontex jointly won the Award for Shipping and the event included a champagne 2016. GREEK SHIPPING AWARDS 2015 5 The Winners ClassNK Event Sponsor Noboru Ueda, chairman and president of Event Sponsor ClassNK, once again delighted the audience by delivering his address in Greek. Below is a translation of Mr Ueda’s speech “GOOD evening, ladies and gentlemen. provide a wide range of services to the ClassNK is one of the world’s largest Greek maritime community. Moreover, their classification societies. At the end of December This year marks the fifth time to greet you all ongoing support has been instrumental in our 2015, the society had 9,190 ships totaling more in your native Greek. I like to think that my success. than 242m gt under class, representing about Greek has improved over the last five years, 20% of the world merchant fleet currently but every year this task proves