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Shipping’s largest awards event, the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its establishment back in 2004. Once again, the event will aim to put the spotlight on some of the industry’s leading individuals and companies as the achievements of Greek shipping and the Greek maritime cluster are celebrated at the traditional end-of-year awards presentation dinner In Athens.

Yearly since 2004, the Greek Shipping Awards has attracted capacity audiences of hundreds of guests and the 20th edition of the awards is expected to be no different.

Strong support for this year’s Awards is led by Erma First sponsoring the welcome drinks reception and a roster of prestigious Greek and international sponsors of the individual awards.

Nominations are coming in as the deadline for entries for the 2023 awards nears. Nominations must be received by the organisers before midnight, Greek time, on Friday 13 October in order to be accepted.

Once again, a prestigious and highly knowledgeable panel of judges from across the industry will assess all nominations and will decide the winners of this year’s Awards.

The panel, broadly representing the Greek shipping industry, will be tasked with choosing ‘the best of the best’ in a range of categories that span the full gamut of Greece’s shipping industry – from the dry cargo, tanker and passenger line sectors - to achievements in safety, sustainability, technology, shipbroking, finance and more. There will be excitement, too, in learning the judging panel’s choice of winners for prestigious individual awards such as Personality of the Year, Seafarer of the Year, the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Next Generation Award.

For the anniversary edition of the world’s best-supported maritime awards event, the regular 18 award categories have been expanded to 20 with the addition of two special awards for 2023 only.

The ‘Deal of the Decade’ Award will focus on outstanding transactions during
the period 2014 to 2023. A Deal of the Decade award was last given in 2013 and covered the first decade of the Greek Shipping Awards. It was won by Angeliki Frangou for her acquisition of Navios in 2005.

The second new award is the ‘20 Years Achievement Award (2004-2023)’ that will
recognise the greatest individual or collective success, or the most transformative achievement, in Greek shipping in the last 20 years. There are plenty of strong candidates to choose from.

Neither of the two special awards is subject to a formal nomination process, but we welcome suggestions from the shipping public as to who would be worthy winners.

All the 2023 award-winners will be unveiled at the 2023 gala awards dinner on Friday, December 1 in Athens.