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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European cruise ports respond to challenges Cruise

European cruise ports respond to challenges

Which is the strategy of cruise ports in Europe? How do they advance their interest and promote cruise activities in Europe? Is China and the development of cruise shipping a challenge? Porteconomics co-director Thanos Pallis answers these questions in an interview to Antonis Tsimplakis, hosted in Naftemporiki, the 90 years old daily...
Revisiting the basics: What is a container terminal? Containers

Revisiting the basics: What is a container terminal?

What is a Container Terminal? PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis discusses the basic concept, and reviews the operating principles, including the need for integration in supply chains, and the key structures of entry in the container terminal market, in a contribution to the Sage Encyclopedia of Transportation: Social Science...
How can cruise ports associations represent the sector best? Cruise

How can cruise ports associations represent the sector best?

When the issue of "How ports and cruise line associations can best serve the sector" is the focal point of many involved in the cruise sector, PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis intervenes in the debate, under his capacity as Secretary General of MedCruise, in an article co-authored by Stavros Hatzakos, ΜedCruise President. The...
Mediterranean cruise ports: changing times, key issues, game changers Cruise

Mediterranean cruise ports: changing times, key issues, game changers

The latest trends in cruise ports in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas were the theme of a study presented at the scientific conference "Regulation and Management in Naples Cruise Port" by PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis in the context of the Naples Shipping Week (NSW), was held in the Italian port city from Monday 23...
Incentive approaches to overcome moral hazard in port concession agreements Containers

Incentive approaches to overcome moral hazard in port concession agreements

Incentive approaches to overcome moral hazard in port concession agreements is the subject of the recent port study conducted by PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis along with Grace Wang and was published in 67th issue of Transportation Research Part E, providing a game theory foundation for port concession agreements, using the...
ESPO2014: the PortEconomics diary Featured

ESPO2014: the PortEconomics diary

PortEconomics co-directors and several members of the PortEconomics team are in Gothenburg, Sweden, to attend the European Sea Ports Organisation 2014 Conference. While they shape discussion of the conference they provide to the readers of our initiative the "PortEconomics diary" live from Gothenburg. Under the overall theme "level...
PPRN: programme of the 12th annual meeting (sponsored by PortEconomics) Containers

PPRN: programme of the 12th annual meeting (sponsored by PortEconomics)

The preliminary program of the forthcoming meeting of the Port Performance Research Network (PPRN), that will take place on July 15, 2014, in Norfolk, US. suggests a most interesting workshop to advance further port studies around the globe. The Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) is an informal network of maritime economists...
Port investment and container shipping markets: An OECD report Containers

Port investment and container shipping markets: An OECD report

Which issues need to be considered in order to modernise container port systems and respond to the growth of containerised maritime trade and to the development needs of their hinterland economies? How to best mobilise private investments and best proceed to port expansions with long-life spans and a structural influence on the local and...
Review of maritime transport 2013 Noticeboard

Review of maritime transport 2013

The UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport, produced by the Division on Technology and Logistics, is the acknowledged United Nations source of statistics and analysis on seaborne trade, the world fleet, freight rates, port traffic, and the latest trends in the legal and regulatory environment for international maritime transport. The 2013...
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