In a deeply emotional and highly symbolic ceremony, Captain Panagiotis Tsakos, founder of the Tsakos Group, launched last Friday, June 6, the newly built tanker of Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN), which was named “Dr. Irene Tsakos”, in honor of his late wife, Dr. Irene Saroglou-Tsakos.

The Greek shipping industry will be able to pass on the cost of tariffs to the charterers and get through this adventure more easily, Greek shipowner Panagiotis Laskaridis said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum X.

With its global "superweapon", shipping, Greece attended the historic meeting between Prime Ministers Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Narendra Modi. The president of the Union of Greek Shipowners, Melina Travlos, next to the two prime ministers, confirmed the geostrategic role of the great shipping of the Greeks and in the case of India and the effort of the Indian Economy, the fifth in the world, to reach the heart of Europe with its products.