Greek tanker tally at shipyards continues to rise
- VLCC ordering up 20-fold and nearly 400 Greek tankers on order mean Greek owners are now shaping the global shipbuilding cycle itself
- Years of uncertainty over future fuels finally fading, pent‑up demand has erupted into a wave of orders led by Prokopiou’s vast VLCC and suezmax programme
- An ageing fleet and a swelling cohort of 20‑year‑old ships have made replacement tonnage not just logical but increasingly urgent
Greek owners have been in the vanguard of a veritable stampede to order new tankers
