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 — convened by the New York–based investor relations and maritime advisory firm, founded in 1995 by Nicolas Bornozis, in partnership with the classification society DNV and in cooperation with the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. First held in 2011, it forms part of a wider circuit of shipping and energy forums that Capital Link runs in New York, London, Athens and Oslo. The seventeenth edition is scheduled for early February 2027 at the Athenaeum InterContinental.

The forum runs for a single day and consists of panel discussions on maritime finance, the energy transition, geopolitics, and shipping regulation, including the industry’s transition toward net-zero emissions. Participants typically include shipowners, bankers, government ministers, and the heads of international shipping organisations. The sixteenth edition, held on 5 February 2026, drew close to a thousand delegates and more than a hundred speakers, among them the shipping ministers of Greece, Cyprus and Malta and representatives of BIMCO, the International Chamber of Shipping, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO.

Each year the forum presents the Capital Link Greek Shipping Leadership Award. The 2026 award was given to Pantelis Eleftherios Kollakis, chairman of the Chartworld group; the 2025 award was given to Thanasis Martinos of Eastern Mediterranean Maritime. The forum is one of two major shipping gatherings associated with Greece, alongside the Posidonia exhibition held in Piraeus every June. Greece has the largest shipowning fleet in the world by tonnage.