{"id":15804,"date":"2020-12-05T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/?p=15804"},"modified":"2020-12-10T23:37:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T23:37:22","slug":"greek-shipping-awards-2020-highlight-best-of-the-best-in-first-ever-virtual-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/greek-shipping-awards-2020-highlight-best-of-the-best-in-first-ever-virtual-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Shipping Awards 2020 highlight \u2018best of the best\u2019 in first-ever virtual ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15806 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nigel-andriana-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nigel-andriana-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nigel-andriana-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nigel-andriana-700x369.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nigel-andriana.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anna Angelicoussi wins \u2018Personality of the Year\u2019 Award as Athanasios Martinos receives Lifetime Achievement recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the leading names in the Greek shipping industry participated in the first-ever virtual edition of the Lloyd\u2019s List Greek Shipping Awards, streamed on Friday, 4 December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Organised\u00a0by Lloyd\u2019s List, the provider of international shipping information since 1734, the highly popular annual awards event continued to receive impressive support from Greek and international sponsors, led by overall Event Sponsor\u00a0ClassNK, despite its recasting as a digital event due to Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Nigel Lowry of Lloyd\u2019s List and Adriana\u00a0Paraskevopoulou, news anchor at Greek public broadcaster ERT, the show saw awards in 18 categories of achievement presented with full respect paid to social distancing and health precautions.<\/p>\n<p>The online event highlighted the global nature of Greek shipping with exclusive data showing the frequency of Greek ship port calls around the world. Other themes that emerged as the evening unfolded included the industry\u2019s concern for its seafarers during the coronavirus crisis, the importance placed on sustainability\u00a0and also the resilience of the country\u2019s passenger shipping industry in maintaining services to the Greek islands.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in 16 years, a woman walked off with the Greek Shipping Personality of the Year Award. The panel of industry judges, which sifted through more than 200 nominations for the 18 awards, selected Anna\u00a0Angelicoussi\u00a0of Alpha Bulkers, Alpha Gas and Pantheon Tankers for the\u00a0honour, making her the first female victor in the category since Athina Martinou in the inaugural year of the awards in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzoUR6oJvIE\" width=\"100%\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QprB2WFi1HE\" width=\"100%\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greekshippingawards.gr\/20201204\/2257\/greek-shipping-awards-2020-highlight-best-of-the-best-in-first-ever-virtual-ceremony\/\">Read More<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=&#8221;transparent&#8221; up=&#8221;15&#8243; down=&#8221;0&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online event highlighted the global nature of Greek shipping with exclusive data showing the frequency of Greek ship port calls around the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sponsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15813,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15804\/revisions\/15813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernicostugs.gr\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}