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Shipping. Marinakis is the founder and chairman of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp. The Capital Maritime Group which is controlled by the Marinakis family, managed in 2025 a mixed fleet of more than 146 vessels, including tankers, container ships, LNG, LPG/ammonia, LCO2, offshore and dry bulk segments.

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Marinakis is the founder and chairman of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp.[17] The Capital Maritime Group which is controlled by the Marinakis family, managed in 2025 a mixed fleet of more than 146 vessels, including tankers, container ships, LNG, LPG/ammonia, LCO2, offshore and dry bulk segments.[18] Capital Group entered the LNG segment in 2018, ordering up to ten LNG ships of a total value of 1.8billion.[19]

From March 2010 until September 2011, Marinakis also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NYSE-listed Crude Carriers Corp.[20] Between March 2007 and December 2014[21] he was chairman of Capital Product Partners L.P. (NASDAQ:CPLP). In November 2018, Capital Product Partners L.P. announced the merger of its tanker fleet with DSS Holdings, whose largest shareholder is WL Ross & Co., thus creating one of the biggest listed tanker companies in the world, in a transaction valued at $1.65bn.[22]

From 1992 to 2005, Marinakis was the commercial manager of Capital Ship Management Corp. and oversaw the businesses of the group of companies that now form Capital Maritime. For the past decades, he has also been active in several other family-controlled businesses all related to the shipping industry.[23]

On 5 December 2023, Marinakis, through his newly established company Capital Offshore, invested $106 million to purchase a fleet of seven platform supply vessels.[24]

On 8 February 2024, Marinakis supported the establishment of the Maritime Emissions Reduction Centre (M-ERC) in Athens, a collaborative effort with Lloyd's Register aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the global fleet.[25][26]

At the 181st graduation ceremony of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy held on 22 June 2024, Vangelis Marinakis was awarded an honorary doctorate.[27]