Nigel Lowry
Athens Correspondent
Nigel Lowry is Lloyd’s List’s resident expert on Greek shipping and has been covering the industry since the crisis of the 1980s. He has reported on the key Greek shipping community from London and New York as well as Athens and has carried out a range of other assignments for Lloyd’s List in other countries.
Nigel wrote the book ‘Onassis and his Legacy’, published by the Onassis Foundation in 2003, reprinted from a serialisation in Lloyd’s List.
He is a regular participant in maritime industry events as chairman, moderator or guest speaker and has often been interviewed for television and other media on shipping topics.
Since 2004, he has directed and hosted the annual Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards, a major event in the maritime calendar that draws more than 1,000 guests each year.
Prior to joining Lloyd’s List he held senior editorial positions with the Greek Business Review, Naftiliaki magazine, the Newsfront Greek Shipping Intelligence newsletter, and The Athenian, a monthly magazine. He has been a regular correspondent for The European Times, De Lloyd/Lloyd Anversois and Media International, among others.
He has won an Efkranti Award for his coverage of the Greek shipping industry and was awarded the Cavaliere del Lavoro Guido Grimaldi prize for his career as a journalist at the 2023 Mare Nostrum Awards, becoming the first non-Italian to win the award.
Independently, Nigel is also founder and director of the Greek Shipping Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is dedicated to recognising outstanding individuals in Greek shipping’s history and is a hub of information for new generations as well as a strong supporter of Greek children’s charity Hellenic Hope.
Latest From Nigel Lowry
Greek shipowners pile up crude tanker orders at China’s Hengli Heavy Industries
Capital Group has doubled its VLCC orderbook to 22 ships, while Dynacom is now believed to have as many as 35 suezmaxes on order
Danaos will need to place LNG carrier orders ‘in a couple of years’
Containership and bulker owner is investing as a partner in Alaska LNG project that will require ‘six to 10’ LNG carriers, depending on exact trades with Far Eastern buyers
More diverse Danaos orders newcastlemax bulkers
First-ever bulker newbuildings come on top of landmark move into LNG shipping, but Greece-based owner is also ordering more vessels for its core containership business
Venergy Maritime newbuild spree rolls on
One-year-old shipping firm of maritime environmental services group orders more boxships as well as tankers
Confidence in LNG carriers rises as US-Greek plans to supply Europe move forward
Shipping is critical to new ‘vertical corridor’ through Greece to provide LNG to Ukraine
Dorian eyes strong market this year as LPG exports hit new record
US-listed operator of 27 VLGCs is completing upgrade of fleet with energy-saving devices