Greek shipping investment surge: Orderbook reaches 818 vessels

Greek shipping is successful the midst of an concern boom, with the country’s shipowners having 818 vessels presently connected order, according to the yearly survey by Petrofin Research on the financing of Greek shipping.

These orders correspond to a total carrying capableness of 76.3 cardinal dwt. The fig is importantly higher compared with the extremity of 2025, when the Greek orderbook stood astatine 666 vessels with a carrying capableness of 59.7 cardinal dwt, while successful the meantime 77 vessels totaling 6.8 cardinal dwt person besides been delivered.

It is noted that astatine the extremity of 2024, the orderbook stood astatine 511 vessels with a capableness of 44 cardinal dwt.

A cardinal operator down the surge successful the Greek shipping industry’s concern rally has been slope financing, peculiarly from Greek banks.

Specifically, according to Petrofin Research’s yearly survey, slope financing for Greek shipping recorded a peculiarly awesome summation of 11.5%, raising the total volume of Greek shipping loans — some drawn and approved but not yet disbursed — registered successful Greece and internationally, to 59.687 cardinal dollars astatine the extremity of 2025. This marks the 2nd consecutive year of growth, pursuing 2024, when the total portfolio had reached 54.51 billion.

Greek banks, with the largest summation astatine 34%, showed strong acceleration and continued their upward trajectory.

Four Greek banks fertile among the top 5 financiers of Greek shipping.

For the archetypal time, National Bank of Greece topped the list, with its total portfolio reaching 6.475 cardinal dollars. Eurobank followed intimately with 6.2 billion, while Piraeus Bank ranked third with 6.07 cardinal dollars.

Alpha Bank placed 5th connected the database with 4.6 billion, while UBS — the lone non-Greek slope successful the top 5 — ranked fourth, with a portfolio amounting to 5.7 cardinal dollars.

Alongside them, Aegean Baltic Bank continues to turn with a portfolio of 526 million, arsenic does CrediaBank with 476 cardinal and the highest yearly summation connected the database astatine 134.5%, arsenic well as Bank of Cyprus with 450 cardinal dollars.