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.
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No one has jumped to say so, but the Trump administration’s bid to derail the net zero agreement this October may not be entirely unwelcome to parts of the shipping industry
Europe must ‘get serious’ about funding ferry fleet renewal
Plight is particularly severe in Greece where a large and strategically important class of vessels is now obsolete, warns consultancy
Samsung Heavy scoops six LNG carrier orders priced at $1.5bn
George Economou’s TMS Cardiff Gas said to be behind four of the contracted vessels but Greek group has so far been silent on the contract
Preparing for the unpredictable
Classification societies have an enhanced role in a more complicated world, says Bureau Veritas regional chief Paillette Palaiologou
Euroseas weighs the joys and woes of overheated boxship prices
Nasdaq-listed owner of feeders and intermediate ships says secondhand acquisitions currently ‘rather difficult’
Okeanis unfazed by ‘shadow fleet’ threat in event of Ukraine ceasefire
Chief executive Aristidis Alafouzos says return of sanctioned tankers to normal trading ‘almost impossible’