2009 Awards Highlights

Event Sponsor, Ernst & Young executive Dimitris Constantinou addressed the Greek Shipping community audience at the 2009 Greek Shipping Awards.

The Welcome Cocktail Reception for over 800 guests was hosted by Diana Shipping

The Champagne Toast to the health of Greek shipping was proposed by Villy Panayotides of sponsor Excel Maritime Carriers

General Secretary of Communication at the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, Sokratis Katsikas, gave a brief welcome address

Dry Cargo Company of the Year – Navios Maritime Holdings
Spyros Capralos, chief executive officer of sponsor Hellenic Exchanges Group presenting the Award to Angeliki Frangou of Navios

Tanker Company of the Year – Capital Ship Management Corporation
Alexander Prokopakis of sponsor Jetoil Bunkering presenting the Award to Evangelos Marinakis of Capital Ship Management Corporation

Passenger Line of the Year – Aegean Speed Lines
Leonidas Demetriades-Eugenides accepting the Award from Tom Leander, editor of Lloyd’s List

Shipbroker of the Year – Golden Destiny
Michail Kokkinis of Golden Destiny accepting the Award from Nassos Hadjigeorgiou of sponsor Allied Shipbroking Inc.

Shipping Financier of the Year – National Bank of Greece
Akis Tsirigakis, chief executive of sponsor Star Bulk Carriers Corporation presenting the Award to Alexandros Tourkolias (centre) and Dimitris Vassilacos

Technical Achievement Award – Ship Design Laboratory (NTUA) and Germanischer Lloyd
Joseph E.M. Hughes, (centre) chairman and CEO of sponsor The American Club presenting the Award to Professor Apostolos Nikolaou of Ship Design Laboratory NTUA and Pierre Sames head of research & development Germanischer Lloyd

Ship of the Year – ‘’Aktea OSRV’ – PLEASE REPLACE PHOTO WITH NEW
Tateo Kaji, executive vice president of sponsor ClassNK presented the Award to Capt. Stefanos Skarvelis and Yiannis Romanidis of owning company Polrom Oil, a subsidiary of Environmental Protection Engineering

Piraeus International Centre Award – Hellenic Shipbrokers Association
Dimitris Vranopoulos of sponsor Marine Plus (left) with John Pachoulis and Dimitris Iliou of the Hellenic Shipbrokers Association

International Personality of the Year – Commissioner Joe Borg
Carla Montesi, director for maritime affairs at the European Commission accepting the Award on behalf of Commissioner Borg from Spyros Fokas of sponsor Aegean Marine Petroleum

Seafarer of the Year – Capt. Efstratios Kavros, Capt. Haralambos Petras and Capt. Alexandros Stamatakis
The three trophies were presented by Alexander G. Tsavliris, a principal of sponsor Tsavliris Salvage Group

Award for Achievement in Education or Training – Professor Costas Grammenos
Professor Costas Grammenos receiving the Award from Nicholas Manias, managing director of sponsor Arcadia Shipmanagement

Award for Achievement in Safety or Environmental Protection – Efthimios Mitropoulos
Apostolos Poulovassilis of sponsor Lloyd’s Register presenting the Award to Elias Mitropoulos accepting on behalf of his father Efthimios Mitropoulos

Lifetime Achievement Award – Capt. Vassilis C. Constantacopoulos
Capt. Constantacopoulos accepted the Lloyd’s List / Propeller Club Lifetime Achievement Award from Christos Kokkinis of sponsor Alpha Bank

Greek Shipping Newsmaker of the Year – Victor Restis
Victor Restis receiving the Greek Shipping Newsmaker Award from George Xiradakis of sponsor XRTC Business Consultants

Greek Shipping Personality of the Year – Andreas Vgenopoulos
Lambros Varnavides of sponsor Royal Bank of Scotland presenting the Greek Shipping Personality Award to Andreas Vgenopoulos

Man of the Sea – Thanos Mikroutsikos
Thanos Mikroutsikos is presented with the Man of the Sea Award by Lloyd’s List Athens correspondent Nigel Lowry

Despina Papastelianou, president of the children’s charity, ARGO receiving the annual Greek Shipping Awards donation from Peter Attwater, producer of the Greek Shipping Awards

Nigel Lowry hosted the 2009 Greek Shipping Awards

Greek shipping’s Dinner of the Year 2009

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