Wood’s Greek Retreat 2025: Record Participation by Greek Companies

Athens Exchange Group participates in and sponsors major investor event in Athens

The Athens Exchange Group is pleased to participate in and sponsor Wood’s Greek Retreat 2025, reaffirming its commitment to promoting Greek businesses within the international investment community.

This year’s event, held on May 15-16 in Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso Hotel in Athens, features a record participation of 32 Greek listed companies from key sectors of the economy.

Through a full agenda of one-on-one...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/14/woods-greek-retreat-2025-record-participation-by-greek-companies/

Death of Diplomacy – part 4

Further to our last back on the 8th of April , we are now entering the dire straits…

Here we go:

Alongside the Death of Diplomacy – and to an extent, of elements of Democracy – has come the birth of, let us call it, drone-ocracy. Stealthily-launched drones are a deadly nightmare in the great and small theatres of war, making a mockery of supposed ceasefires. Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and now Kashmir are among victim-territories of this ghastly modern form of weaponry, often supporting substantial...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/11/death-of-diplomacy-part-4/

Market Report: Stocks hold firm as markets wait for further trade deals

  • FTSE sentiment rises on UK trade agreement with US
  • Investors eye progress on China trade discussions as EU plays hardball
  • Chinese exports surprise, rising 8.1% in April
  • NVIDIA plans new H20 chip to fight export ban
  • TSMC’s sales up 48.1% in April
  • Brent Crude bounces to around $63 per barrel, Starmer targets Russia’s shadow fleet

Derren Nathan, head of equity research, Hargreaves Lansdown:

“The diplomatic offensive presented conjointly by President Trump and Keir Starmer from Washington and...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/09/market-report-stocks-hold-firm-as-markets-wait-for-further-trade-deals/

“The Strategy of Battle”…

…Possibly (?) is transformed to “A race of Strategy and Luck”

by Commodore (HN Rt) Kostas Papachristodoulou (pictured above).

International and National institutions in order to create a concept for translating the pursuit of power formulated a Geo-politic concept which will explain how powers is going to pursue or how they translate the alliances and conflicts in the global with uncovered or covered initiatives. Strategic and Economic pursuits tend to represent this competition as a game of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/05/07/the-strategy-of-battle/