Thanos Pallis – PortEconomics

Thanos Pallis

Dr. Thanos Pallis is Professor of Port Economics & Policy & the scientific coordinator of the Jean Monnet Action on European Port Policy at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport (STT), University of the Aegean, Greece. He is currently the President of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), and has served as secretary general of MedCruise, the association of cruise ports in the Med. The author of the acclaimed book "European Port Policy", he has an extensive international experience in port policy and economics. Thanos co-directs PortEconomics and is a regular contributor at the work of national governments and international organisation (UNCTAD, OECD, and ESPO, IAPH, and AVIP) shaping the port sector.

Author's Posts

European Port Policy

Jean Monnet Chair in European Port Policy

The European Commission has awarded a Jean Monnet Chair to PortEconomics co-director and University of Piraeus, Department of Maritime Studies Professor Thanos Pallis. Jean Monnet Chairs are specialised teaching posts for university professors, aimed at deepening teaching and research in European Union studies and fostering...

Containers

Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

Do you want to understand better why fewer than 80 container terminals are automated? PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Thanos Pallis & Geraldine Knatz examine stakeholders' attitudes toward container terminal automation, aiming to place terminal automation as an innovation trajectory in the broader context of...

Cruise

Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

By Thanos Pallis Having attended the most successful Posidonia Events Sea Tourism Forum 2025, I am pleased to share with PortEconomcs readers some extracts, personal perspectives & standout figures: 1️⃣ Strong forecasts for 42m Passengers by 2028 (Source: CLIA in Europe) - implies: > 200 million port passenger...

Cruise

Planning a network of marinas and tourist ports in Greece

PortEconomics members George Vaggelas and Thanos Pallis presented their latest study, "Proposals for the Development of a Network of Tourist Ports in Greece" during a special event organised by the Greek Marinas Association in Athens, Greece. Despite its extensive coastline, Greece lags in the number of organised tourist...

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PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

The Ports as Energy Transition Hubs (POTENT) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network is looking for 15 qualified PhD candidates interested in the field of Energy Infrastructure, Maritime Economics, Ports, and Data Science. Four of these PhDs will by supervised by Piere Cariou, Henrik Sorkin-Friese, Jason Monios, and Gordon...

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Singapore stuck between a shipping hub and a hard place

by Jean-Paul Rodrigue Despite facing growing competition and uncertainty due to geopolitical events, Singapore has maintained its prominence in maritime shipping, with its status as a primary transshipment hub evident in its sizeable port activity. The 2023 Red Sea crisis resulted in a temporary surge in Singapore's traffic, but...

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PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

Elsevier’s science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, developed in collaboration with Stanford University, are one of the leading sources for analyzing career-long data in different research fields. The August 2024 update report ranks the 2% best-performing scholars of a total of more than 29,000...

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Port Governance & the Implications of Institutional fragmentation: lessons from Colombia

What are the implications of institutional fragmentation in port governance? PortEconomics members Gordon Wilmsmeier and Thanos Pallis, the founder of PortEconomics - along with Sebastian Leon Schorch and Diana Lisseth Trujillo - explore the issue in their recently published port study titled “Port Governance and the Implications...

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The socioeconomic impact of cruise activities: Heraklion, Greece

With cruise activities storming to new record levels, ports and destinations are reorganising their services and upgrading their infrastructures to sustainably host cruise calls and passengers. A critical part of this process is understanding the actual impact of cruise activities on a destination. In a recent study,...

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