Nicholas Papalios is the founder of Vantage Shipping Lines S.A., Primal Shipmanagement Inc. and co-founder of Primal Marine Shipbrokers Ltd.
He was born in Athens in 1973 and has more than 25 years of experience in the shipping industry.
Having studied in London and USA and coming from a traditional shipping family, originally hailing from Chios, in 1995 he started his own ship-owning activities with dry bulk carriers.
He has been a member of the Union of the Greek Shipowners since 2000 and he is the Deputy Representative of Jamaica to Greece.
He has also been an elected Member of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping (2000-2005) and a member of the Hellenic Australian Business Council (2013-2017)