Lloyd’s List: Marinakis and Angelicoussis at the Top – 17 Greeks in the Top 100 of Global Shipping

Evangelos Marinakis and Maria Angelicoussis are the two top Greek shipowners among the 100 top influencers shaping global shipping in 2025, according to the One Hundred People edition by British Lloyd’s List.

Another 15 individuals representing Greek shipping are included among the 100 most powerful figures in global shipping for the One Hundred People 2025 edition.

At the top of the list is US President Donald Trump, whom Lloyd’s describes as arguably as the most influential figure in shipping for 2025, saying he has “…affected global shipping more than anyone else in 2025, via a stranger-than-fiction whirlwind of tariffs on almost every trading partner, start-and-stop port fees, Iranian and Russian sanctions, airstrikes in Yemen and Iran…a bid to make American shipbuilding great again, and a successful 11th-hour sabotage of the Net-Zero Framework vote.”

8. Maria Angelicoussis, Angelicoussis Group

Maria Angelicoussis rose to 8^th place in the 2025 edition from 12^th in last year’s Lloyd’s List. She is also first among the 17 Greeks in the Top 100.

Despite the company’s international outlook, as she said, Angelicoussis adds