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    Geopolitical risks and port-related carbon emissions: evidence and policy implications

    Geopolitical risks and port-related carbon emissions: evidence and policy implications

    Investments and financing challenges of the EU’s port managing bodies; findings from a comprehensive survey

    Investments and financing challenges of the EU’s port managing bodies; findings from a comprehensive survey

    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents:  Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

    Evaluating customer satisfaction with clearing and forwarding agents: Kuwait Shuwaikh Port

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

    Stakeholders’ attitudes toward container terminal automation

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    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

    Port reform: World Bank publishes the third edition of its port reform toolkit

    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

    When will we admit that maritime transport will not be decarbonised by 2050?

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    Digital technologies for efficient and resilient sea-land logistics

    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

    The World Ports Tracker in TOC Europe

    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

    Newly-upgraded IAPH World Ports Tracker identifies major sustainability and market trends

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    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

    PhD posts in the area of ports and energy transition

    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

    PortEconomics members among best-performing scholars globally

    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

    Accessibility or connectivity: why is it correct to say that in the Caribbean the main logistics problem is connectivity?

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    Cruise Port-City Compass

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    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    Portgraphic: Top-15 EU container ports in H1 2025

    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

    Portgraphic: fleet capacity (owned/chartered) of container shipping lines

    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

    In a tight spot: American ports in global supply chains

    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    Cruise industry in 2025 at a glance

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

    The box that makes the world go around: container terminals and global trade

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Posts tagged with "George Vaggelas"

Calls, connectivity, liners and alliances at Thessaloniki container port Containers

Calls, connectivity, liners and alliances at Thessaloniki container port

by George Vaggelas & Thanos Pallis Thessaloniki stands as the second biggest container port in Greece and a peripheral port aiming to serve the Balkans and further regions in Southeast Europe. It is almost a year since the privatization of the Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A., via the selling of the majority of the shares of the...
Port labour: drivers of change Featured

Port labour: drivers of change

How the evolving port industry affects the port labour and what will be the challenges for port workers in the near future? Should we focus on a “second” life for port workers or should we provide the tools for a second career chance in the port industry? These were the major questions of a presentation delivered by PortEconomics...
Cruise shipping and green ports: a strategic challenge Cruise

Cruise shipping and green ports: a strategic challenge

Cruise is a maritime activity on continuous growth for more than three decades. With the positive direct and indirect impacts diffused to the port cities or nearby touristic destinations, cruise seaports are gaining importance. The interest in hosting more cruise calls and cruise passenger movements has been supported, in general, by...
Shipping strategies: Global liner alliances in the port of Piraeus Containers

Shipping strategies: Global liner alliances in the port of Piraeus

How the strategic planning of a liner alliance affects the development prospects of a container port? How the relations inside the alliance are reflected on port selection?  Shipping strategies and the rise of global liner alliances is the subject of PortEconomics member George Vaggelas' most recent port study. George has...
PortEconomics coordinated Chios Symposium on European port policy marked by success Category

PortEconomics coordinated Chios Symposium on European port policy marked by success

A fruitful and productive Jean Monnet Symposium on “The future of the Future of the European Port Policy” took place on the island of Chios during the 28th and 29th of June 2018. The Symposium was scientifically coordinated by PorteEconomics.eu and organised by the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of University of the...
GREPORT2018: Report on greek ports European Port Policy

GREPORT2018: Report on greek ports

GREPORT2018, the second edition of the bi-annual Report on Greek Ports, has been produced by PortEconomics members George Vaggelas and Thanos Pallis, and published by Ports & Shipping Advisory (P&SA). The report covers all the developments in the Greek Port System over the last years, including a detailed analysis of the...
Details of a port privatisation: Thessaloniki port European Port Policy

Details of a port privatisation: Thessaloniki port

By George Vaggelas and Thanos Pallis The port is Thessaloniki in Greece. The date is March 2018. A long port privatization process that lasted almost 13 (!!) years is finally concluded, with the Greek state handing 67% of the shares of the Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A. to the new owners of the port, the South Europe Gateway...
PORTOPIA: port users' perceptions on port performance Category

PORTOPIA: port users' perceptions on port performance

PortEconomics member George Vaggelas presented the platform for measuring the port users’ perception on port performance, one of the new topics on port performance measurement that has been tackled in the PORTOPIA framework. Following a brief description of the electronic platform developed for the exploitation of port users’...
PORTOPIA:  final event to shed a light on the future of port performance Featured

PORTOPIA: final event to shed a light on the future of port performance

The PORTOPIA partners - including several PortEconomics members - are happy to present the outcome of the project and to shed a light on future developments during the Final Event that will take place on November 9, 2017 in the BNP Paribas Fortis Auditorium Marais in Brussels (Belgium). This event must be seen as a milestone in the data...
Unveiling configurations of shipping clusters: challenges and opportunities in the case of Piraeus Category

Unveiling configurations of shipping clusters: challenges and opportunities in the case of Piraeus

Clustering provides significant added value to companies belonging to it, well verified in practice and in literature. Informally, at least, shipping clusters exist in many cities (i.e. Singapore), some developed around a port with obscure boundaries. Such a case is the Piraeus in Greece, relying heavily on the Greek shipping...
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