The Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum

The Capital Link Greek Shipping Forum is Capital Link’s annual gathering of the global shipping industry’s leadership in Athens, Greece, organised in partnership with the classification society DNV and in cooperation with the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. The sixteenth edition was held at the Athenaeum InterContinental on Thursday 5 February 2026.

The forum ran for a single day and consisted of panels on net-zero regulation, energy security, the geopolitics of trade routes, and shipping finance in a tightening market. It drew close to a thousand delegates and more than a hundred speakers, among them shipowners, government ministers, bankers, and the heads of shipping associations. At the forum luncheon, Capital Link conferred its 2026 Greek Shipping Leadership Award on Pantelis Eleftherios Kollakis, chairman of the Chartworld group.

The forum keeps an early-February schedule in Athens. The fifteenth edition was held on 7 February 2025, when the award went to Thanasis Martinos of Eastern Mediterranean Maritime. It is one of two major shipping gatherings associated with Greece, alongside the Posidonia exhibition held in Piraeus every June. Greece is the largest shipowning nation in the world by fleet tonnage.