The $25 million for a single voyage is perhaps the most telling sign of how quickly the landscape has changed in the large tanker market. The Angelikoussi Group is among the first to capitalize on the new situation, securing a particularly strong fixture for the group’s VLCCs bound for the United States. The freight rate reflects a market in which available vessels are becoming scarcer, distances are increasing and charterers are being asked to pay significantly more to secure capacity.

METLEN has successfully carried out the “First Fire on Waste” at the Protos Energy Recovery Unit, which it is developing for Encyclis in Cheshire, NW England.

Live camera footage from Elafonisi, the world‑famous beach in Crete’s Chania region, is showing thousands of tourists crammed onto its pink sands and turquoise waters, raising fresh concerns about overtourism in a protected Natura 2000 site.

Greek pole vaulter Emmanouil Karalis cleared 6.16 meters at the Diamond League’s lakeside city event, setting a new outdoor personal best and finishing second in what rival Armand “Mondo” Duplantis called “the greatest pole vaulting competition ever.”