Greece

Fleet Safety wins Safety4Sea Technology Award

Image (left to right): Antonis Bavas, Claims Executive (Greece), The American P&I Club and Peter Broadhurst, Inmarsat Senior VP Safety and Security

New maritime safety service that paves the way for the modernisation of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) wins prestigious industry accolade

03 October 2018: Inmarsat’s new Fleet Safety maritime data service has been named winner in the Technology category for the highly regarded Safety4Sea Awards, 2018. The award win, by public...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/03/fleet-safety-wins-safety4sea-technology-award/

SQE Marine and HudsonAnalytix Create Alliance Providing a Global Framework for Maritime Risk Management

Cynthia Hudson, HudsonAnalytix

Agreement Aligns Strengths of Both Teams

October 2, 2018–  SQE Marine of Piraeus, Greece, and HudsonAnalytix, headquartered in the Philadelphia area of the United States, announce they have formed a Teaming Agreement between their respective organizations for collaboration in the broad area of maritime risk management.  They will be working jointly to offer one another’s services and products to the shipping industry and to develop new offerings encompassing...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/02/sqe-marine-and-hudsonanalytix-create-alliance-providing-a-global-framework-for-maritime-risk-management/

3rd Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair

3rd Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair   22-25/11/ 2018

We are ready to announce the 3rd edition  of Art Thessaloniki Fair at TIF-HELEXPO (pavilions 10, 9 & 8)  about 6000sq.m, starting on Thursday 22 – 25 November 2018.

Applications will be accepted until 12 October 2018

The Fair runs under the slogan Distribution – Briefing – Amusement, which is guaranteed as Art Thessaloniki Fair is operating under the highest standards.

Art Thessaloniki invests in the strategically important...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/02/3rd-art-thessaloniki-international-contemporary-art-fair/

FOUGARO News etc., 2-15 October 2018

bi-monthly newsletter
2 October to 15 October  2018

ART EXHIBITION
TSEKLENIS
THE FASHION YEARS 

Opening
Sunday 7 October | 11am-8pm

the exhibition will last until 25 November
THE GALLERY

A retrospective exhibition on Giannis Tseklenis, the designer who marked an era with his unique work from 1965 – 1991.
ART
Exhibition

Contemporary Small Sculptures

Hall 2

An exhibition of contemporary small...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/02/172612/

Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Tuesday, October 2, 2018)

HIGHLIGHTS

WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: Market concerns about escalating tensions between the Italian government and the EU are mounting. 10-yr Italian government bond yields rose further in early European trade on Tuesday hitting a 4½  year high of 3.44% while the EUR remained under pressure marking an intraday low of 1.1523 against the USD earlier today, the lowest since 21 August. No major data releases are due for release today with market focus turning to a speech by...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/02/daily-overview-of-global-markets-the-see-region-tuesday-october-2-2018/

Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Monday, October 1, 2018)

HIGHLIGHTS

WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: Market concerns about Italy’s public finances stability prevail. Against this background, investors continued to demand a higher credit risk premium on Italian government bonds while the EUR/USD was hovering in early European trade within distance from Friday’s two-week intraday low of 1.1566. Elsewhere, the CAD was among the main outperformers in FX markets on news that Canada was to join the US and Mexico to form a revised NAFTA...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/01/daily-overview-of-global-markets-the-see-region-monday-october-1-2018/

Britannia Announces Team for Greek Office Opening

Britannia Announces Team for Greek Office Opening

Britannia has finalised its Greek office opening plans by announcing the team that has recently taken up residence in Piraeus, Greece.

The office will be tasked with enhancing service delivery to its Greek members and is part of an ongoing expansion of the Club’s regional hub network that will also shortly see the opening of an office in Singapore in addition to the upgrading of its presence in Japan and Hong Kong, as well as the recent opening of...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/01/britannia-announces-team-for-greek-office-opening/

Pyxis Tankers refinances product tanker with loan from Blue Ocean Maritime

Greek owner Pyxis Tankers has refinanced the loan facility for 2015-built product tanker with EnTrustPermal’s Blue Ocean Maritime Income. After the repayment of existing bank debt, the new five-year secured loan provides Pyxis with proceeds of $7.3m. Valentios Valentis, chairman and CEO of Pyxis...

https://splash247.com/pyxis-tankers-refinances-product-tanker-with-loan-from-blue-ocean-maritime/

Daily Overview of Global Markets & the SEE Region (Friday, September 28, 2018)

HIGHLIGHTS

WORLD ECONOMIC & MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

GLOBAL MARKETS: The Italian government issued a statement yesterday to announce that the new budget deficit target for 2019 has been set at the upper range of market expectations at 2.4%-of-GDP. Tensions with the European Commission are likely to escalate and major rating agencies may downgrade Italy’s sovereign credit. Not surprisingly, market reaction was negative. The EUR/USD dropped to a two week low of 1.1614 earlier today and Italy’s 10-yr...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/09/28/daily-overview-of-global-markets-the-see-region-friday-september-28-2018/

Trade Fortune picks up Great Eastern kamsarmax, its first acquisition in two years

Greek dry bulk owner Trade Fortune has been revealed as the buyer of Great Eastern’s 2011-built kamsarmax . The Piraeus-based outfit paid a shade above $18.5m for the SPP-built vessel according to brokers, substantially less than the fair market value placed on the vessel by MSI. Trade Fortune is a...

https://splash247.com/trade-fortune-picks-up-great-eastern-kamsarmax-its-first-acquisition-in-two-years/

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