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.

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13th Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) meeting Featured

13th Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) meeting

The 13th meeting of the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) takes place on Sunday, 23rd August, in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, with PortEconomics members meeting together with fellow maritime economists interested in port research at the eve of the 2015 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists...
Concession agreements and market entry in the container terminal industry Containers

Concession agreements and market entry in the container terminal industry

The capabilities and strategies required for obtaining a concession to operate a container terminal in a seaport is the theme of the study conducted by the three PortEconomics co-directors, Thanos Pallis, Theo Notteboom and Peter de Langen, and is now part of a new volume "Port Management", just published by Palgrave. The...
OECD report on the state of the art of the cruise industry & cruise ports Cruise

OECD report on the state of the art of the cruise industry & cruise ports

The OECD International Transport Forum (ITF) brings cruise and cruise ports at the centre of  discussions during the 2015 ITF/OECD Summit on "Transport, Tourism and Trade", with PortEconomics  co-director Thanos Pallis preparing the background discussion Paper to inform the high-level discussions that took place during the...
Cruise ports: passengers per cruise call Cruise

Cruise ports: passengers per cruise call

By Thanos Pallis The deployment of bigger cruise vessels along the globe are associated with the continuous increase of the average number cruise passengers that reach a cruise port via one call alone. The figures of the Mediterranean and the adjoining seas, the second biggest cruise region of the world provides a clear examble of...
Top-10 cruise ports in the Med Cruise

Top-10 cruise ports in the Med

By Thanos Pallis Which are the top-10 cruise ports in the Meditteranean and its adjoining seas? PortEconomics co-director Thanos Palllis compiled the list of the 10 largest cruise ports in terms of passenger movements in 2014, and compared these figures to the years 2013 and 2010, in a single picture, with PortEconomics...
Cruise ports: learning from statistics Cruise

Cruise ports: learning from statistics

This year's edition of the annual statistical report prepared by the MedCruise secretariat reveals some interesting trends in the regional cruise port industry. Thanos Pallis, PortEconomics co-director and secretary general of MedCruise (the Association representing cruise ports in the Med and its adjoining seas), provides his view...
Greek port policy 2015: six questions demand answers Featured

Greek port policy 2015: six questions demand answers

By Thanos Pallis With Greek ports being part of a major reform programme, key policy-decisions lay ahead. PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis details the six most vital questions of all, through his view point that published in the latest issue of the major Greek maritime magazine Naftika Chronika - arguing that the requested...
Cruise ports: structures and strategies Cruise

Cruise ports: structures and strategies

The cruise industry has witnessed an uninterrupted growth over the last thirty years. An industry focused on the United States and the Caribbean emerged progressively as a global industry transporting close to 21 million passengers in 2013. While the global financial crisis of 2008–09 had a major impact over maritime shipping, cruise...
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