To succeed you must survive until you get lucky
Quarterly and annual plans and decisions are no longer feasible in a time of AI
when continuous data update is available – data must be leveraged to make
weekly and monthly decisions
We had a tremendous day at our 27th Marine Money
Greece conference on 16th October 2025 at the fabulous
venue Asteria Glyfada (DOMUS). It was a full room with
over 300 delegates and speakers with about one quarter
travelling in from 19 countries.
The quality content during the discussions in the conference
room was matched by the enthusiastic networking outside.
And the meeting room area and networking areas at
DOMUS worked perfectly to encourage debate, private
meetings and casual drinks.
To get a true feel for the event please watch the video
replays of the event which can be seen at
https://www.marinemoney.com/events-2-0-2/2025-greekship-finance-forum
In the meantime some of the takeaways from the
conference include:
- Trade is travelling more than ever even as US
tariffs reach a high not seen since the Great
Depression
- A necessary response to the new trade disruptions
are rearrange, ramp-up, replace and reduce
- There is a trend for there to be more trade
between geopolitical allies and this is changing the
geographical route of some trades
- Global energy consumption is expected to shift to
33% to 42% electricity by 2050 but how will this
electricity be produced – fossil fuels, renewables,
nuclear and more
- Fossil fuels, whatever may be the dream case
scenario, will remain important well beyond 2025
- Sustainable fuel demand will grow 400% by 2050
to 600 million tons per year
- All owners must embed global trade scenarios in
their business planning
- You must define a fleet composition and
deployment strategy for the years ahead
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- Strategic partnerships are crucial going forward to
hedge uncertainty
- And all companies, and especially bigger
companies, must develop capabilities to leverage
big data and AI
- The dollar weakness has helped some trade to
rebound
- With so much current confusion, for tramp
operators at least, short term charters are
preferred
- Whatever happens you cannot exclude China from
shipping since it is dominant in ownership,
shipbuilding and trade. There are too many
misconceptions in the market about a retreat from
shipping by China.
- Biggest challenges currently are the IMO decision,
trade turmoil and longer term which alternative
fuels and how. The biggest opportunity is
technology. The key is to handle the former and
to implement the latter.
- Success in today’s challenging market means
commercial and financial flexibility, keeping a low
base line cost and having a strong balance sheet.
- As a company grows from M&A or from fleet
acquisitions it has growing pains and new systems
must be put in place
- Becoming bigger must not cause a company to
lose its entrepreneurial spirit in decision making
- To succeed you must survive until you get lucky
- It is not enough just to have the data, you must
have the ability to analyse the data and then to
implement decisions based on this
- Quarterly and annual plans and decisions are no
longer feasible in a time of AI when continuous
data update is available – data must be leveraged
to make weekly and monthly decisions
- Expectations for technology are at an all time high
Greek shipping remains in a good place and we had plenty
advise and debate about CHARTING A SMART COURSE
FORWARD FOR GREEK SHIPPING. Over 300 shipping
executives spent the day hearing debate, talking, laughing
and networking. This year is exciting as is every year in
shipping.
We look forward to catching up with you all again
next year for Marine Money Greece 2026.
Save the date: Thursday, 15 October 2026
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