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European Port Policy:  the deviation of Greek practices (in Greek)European Port Policy

European Port Policy: the deviation of Greek practices (in Greek)

January 27th, 2022 European Port Policy, Featured, PortStudies

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Geopolitical leverage through the international activities of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in ports and maritime logistics
Geopolitical leverage through the international activities of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in ports and maritime logistics
European ports: The need to avoid the great divide
European ports: The need to avoid the great divide
Florence maritime regulation conference: PortEconomics members shape maritime regulation
Florence maritime regulation conference: PortEconomics members shape maritime regulation
Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2026
Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2026

In the 1990s European Union embarked on the development of a European Port Policy. Three decades later, and despite the difficulties observed along the road, progress has been achieved on certain fronts.

In their latest port study, PortEconomics member Thanos Pallis and Costas Chlomoudis (University of Piraeus, Greece) examine this evolution in parallel with the analysis of the eventful Greek port policy.

The analysis covers the last four decades and reveals that successive governments opted to deviate with the European approach and develop a “Greek prototype” of port governance.

The port study is published (in Greek) in a special volume celebrating 40 years of Greece’s EU membership, that is introduced by the ex-President of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker.

Follow the link to freely download the authors’ version of the portstudy.

 

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Aimilia Papachristou

Aimilia A. Papachristou is Business Consultant on cruise-rail integration in Travel Bureau of the Passenger Services Department of TRAINOSE S.A. A maritime economist, holding a BSc from the Department of Shipping Trade and Transport, School of Business, University of the Aegean, Greece (2002), and a MSc in Shipping Trade & Transport, School of Business, University of the Aegean, Greece (2004). Since 2013, Aimilia was senior project manager at MedCruise, the association of over 100 cruise ports from 20 countries in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas. She has contributed in re-profiling the Association. The period January-March 2018 she acted as interim Secretary General of the Association, while she will conclude serving the Association at the end of May 2018, due to the relocation of the headquarters to Tenerife, Spain. Before that post Aimilia had been advisor to the Secretary General of Ports and Port Policy, at the Ministry of Development Competitiveness and Shipping of the Hellenic Republic (2011-2012). Under her capacity as Research Fellow at the Business School of the University of the Aegean (since 2009) Aimilia has been also involved - either as research or as administrator - in several port and maritime related research projects funded by the European Union, shipping companies and ports. Her professional experience also includes experience as Lecturer at the Business Administration Department of the Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Ionian Islands, Greece. At ATEI, Aimilia was teaching courses in “Marketing Management”, “Human Resource Management”, “Advertisement”, “Market Research” and “International Economic Relations” (2006-2009). A scholar of the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Aimilia currently works on a PhD thesis examining cruise port governance at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport (STT) of the School of Business, University of the Aegean. Greece. Aimilia was elected member of the Council of the Hellenic Association of Maritime Economist (2010-2015). She is a founding member of PortEconomics.eu, advancing since 2008 the web initiative advancing the dissemination of port research and studies and a scientific partner of the consulting company Ports & Shipping Advisory since its establishment in 2016.

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