TEN Ltd. Receives Best Deal of the Year Award at the 2025 Lloyds List Greek Shipping Awards
TEN Ltd. (NYSE: TEN) (“TEN” or the “Company”), a leading diversified crude, product and LNG tanker operator, announced that it has received the ‘Best Deal’ Award in recognition of its landmark expansion into the shuttle tanker space. With a pro-forma fleet of 16 vessels, 10 of which are currently being constructed in South Korea, TEN has over the recent past become one of the largest shuttle tanker owners in the world with current revenue backlog of approximately $3.0 billion.
The annual event which took place on December 5, 2025, included a select group of high-caliber industry leaders, executives, and stakeholders. Mr. George Saroglou, President and COO and Mr. Panagiotis Tsakos Jr. accepted the award on behalf of the Company. TEN’s counterparties, and its seafarers underscore the collective commitment, dedication, and excellence that define the organization’s longstanding industry presence and performance.
Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards introduces new ‘Deal of the Year’ prize
The Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new category of award: ‘Deal of the Year.’
The award marks the first new category added to the shipping industry’s favourite annual awards for several years. It follows the success of the ‘Deal of the Decade’ award, offered twice in the event’s 20-year history. These special awards, presented in 2013 and 2023, were won by Angeliki Frangou and Evangelos Marinakis, respectively.
The new annual award is being supported by the Timagenis Law Firm and will make its debut at the Greek Shipping Awards 2024, presented this year on December 6 at the annual gala dinner held in the Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel.
Timagenis, one of the original supporters of the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards when they were first launched back in 2004, also sponsored the most recent ‘Deal of the Decade’ Award last year. Timagenis commented: “We are honored to sponsor the inaugural ‘Deal of the Year’ award category. As a firm committed to excellence in maritime law, we are proud to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements and innovative transactions shaping the future of Greek shipping.”
The awards are adjudicated by a judging panel of leading personalities representing Greek shipping and the wider Greek maritime cluster. The annual Deal of the Year Award will go to the person or company adjudged by the panel to have done the most successful and impressive single transaction in Greek shipping over the preceding year. A series of transactions may be considered by the judges if circumstances warrant. Transactions that have not yet closed may not be considered.
Any kind of business deal within the maritime sector may be nominated, including but not limited to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, sales and purchases, or the conclusion of a very successful financing or very profitable charterparty. Wherever possible the exceptionality of the deal should be illustrated by identifying the benefits and advantages to the party to the transaction, or its expected benefits.
Nominations are welcomed for the Deal of the Year Award and for all the other categories of award, by the deadline of Friday, October 18. You can nominate online at www.greekshippingawards.gr or by email to office@greekshippingawards.gr
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Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards returns on December 3, 2021
Shipping’s largest awards event, the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards, is headed for an in-person return this December as the organisers continue preparations for the traditional end-of-year presentation dinner In Athens.
Yearly since 2004, the Greek Shipping Awards has attracted audiences of 1,000 guests or more but last year the event was held virtually, to exciting effect, attracting an audience of more than 5,000 people online.
Strong support for this year’s Awards is led by overall Event Sponsor ClassNK. The welcome drinks are sponsored by Erma First while China Classification Society is once again offering the champagne toast to Greek shipping’s health. They are backed up by a roster of prestigious Greek and international sponsors of the individual awards.
Nominations are coming in as the deadline for entries for the 2021 awards nears. Nominations must be received by the organisers before midnight, Greek time, on Friday 15 October in order to be accepted.
Once again, a prestigious and highly knowledgeable panel of judges from across the industry will assess all nominations and will decide the winners of this year’s Awards. Experienced returning panellists include Hellenic Chamber of Shipping President George Pateras, Haralambos Falios, Chairman of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee, and Leonidas Demetriades-Eugenides, the President of the Eugenides Foundation.
They will be joined by the General Secretary of the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation, Capt Manolis Tsikalakis, Piraeus Marine Club President Irene Daifas, Hellenic Shipbrokers Association President John Cotzias and Elpi Petraki, President of WISTA Hellas.
The prestigious judges on this year’s panel also include the President of Martecma, Stavros Hatzigrigoris, and Nicholas Vouyoukas, President of the Association of Banking and Financial Executives of Hellenic Shipping.
The panel, broadly representing the Greek shipping industry, will be tasked with choosing ‘the best of the best’ in a range of categories that span the full gamut of Greece’s shipping industry – from the dry cargo, tanker and passenger line sectors, to achievements in safety, sustainability, technology, shipbroking finance and more. There will be excitement, too, in learning the judging panel’s choice of winners for prestigious individual awards such as Personality of the Year, Seafarer of the Year, the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Next Generation Award.
All the winners will be revealed at the 2021 gala awards dinner on Friday, December 3 in Athens. Bookings for the dinner will open shortly.
2021 Judging Panel in alphabetical order
John CotziasPresident of the Hellenic Shipbrokers Association
Irene DaifasPresident of the Piraeus Marine Club
Leonidas Demetriades-EugenidesPresident of the Eugenides Foundation
Haralambos FafaliosChairman of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee
Stavros HatzigrigorisPresident of Martecma
Nigel LowryAthens Correspondent, Lloyds List
George D. PaterasPresident of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping
Elpi PetrakiPresident of WISTA Hellas
Capt. Manolis TsikalakisGeneral Secretary of the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation
Nicholas VouyoukasPresident of the Association of Banking and Financial Executives of Hellenic Shipping2021 Award Categories & Sponsors
Event Sponsor – ClassNK
Champagne Toast – China Classification Society CCS
Welcome Drinks – Erma First
– Dry Cargo Company of the YearSponsored by Marichem Marigases
– Tanker Company of the YearSponsored by Bureau Veritas
– Passenger Line of the YearSponsored by SWS
– Shipbroker of the YearSponsored by the Tsakos Group
– Shipping Financier of the YearSponsored by Tototheo Maritime
– Piraeus International Centre AwardSponsored by SRH Marine SAIT
– Technical Achievement AwardSponsored by DNV
– The Safety AwardSponsored by SeaJets
– International Personality of the YearSponsored by Capital Ship Management Corp.
– Ship of the YearSponsored by ABS
– Award for Achievement in Education or TrainingSponsored by Panama Maritime Authority
– The Sustainability AwardSponsored by Lloyd’s Register
– The Next Generation Shipping AwardSponsored by IRI / The Marshall Islands Registry
– Lloyd’s List Intelligence Big Data Award *Sponsor to be advised
– Lloyd’s List / Propeller Club Lifetime Achievement AwardSponsored by Shipping Deputy Ministry, Cyprus
– Greek Shipping Personality of the YearSponsored by Eurobank
* Denotes awards not decided by the panel
AWARDS NOT OPEN TO OUTSIDE NOMINATIONS
– Seafarer of the YearSponsored by Safe Bulkers, Inc.
– Greek Shipping Newsmaker of the Year*Sponsored by ExxonMobil Marine