The Baltic Exchange, dating to 1744, opened its hall to the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee, London's Greek owners' voice since 1935, for their January lunch.
The Baltic Exchange hosted the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee for its annual lunch at Wax Chandlers’ Hall in the City on Tuesday 21 January 2025.
The Baltic Exchange traces itself to 1744, when London’s shipping trade first organised around the Virginia and Baltick Coffee House on Threadneedle Street. It incorporated as a company in 1900, and the Singapore Exchange bought it in 2016.
It publishes the freight indices that the world’s dry-cargo and tanker markets are priced against, the Baltic Dry Index among them.
The Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee has been the voice of Greek shipowners in London since 1935. It speaks for a fleet that has led world shipping for decades.
Guy Hindley opened the lunch in one of his first engagements as the Baltic’s chairman. He spoke on the year’s freight costs and emissions rules, then thanked the Committee for its continued support. A drinks reception preceded a three-course lunch for more than two dozen guests.
The Baltic counted more than 45 member companies and over 140 individual members from Greece that year. The figure had risen sharply across the previous seven years.