Posts tagged with "Thanos Pallis"

Marketing of port authorities: a novel conceptualisation Category

Marketing of port authorities: a novel conceptualisation

Port authorities  have transformed to hybrid organizations mostly disassociated from operational activities and port services provision. Still, they maintain a key role as managing bodies advancing the prospects of respective port and associate clusters. Marketing is among the functions working towards this end. In a new port study,...
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...
Cruise ports need to upscale their representation by subscribing to the WPSP Cruise

Cruise ports need to upscale their representation by subscribing to the WPSP

By Thanos Pallis The launching of the World Ports Sustainability Programme (WPSP) by the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH), the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), AIVP – The Worldwide Network of Port Cities (AIVP) and the World Association for Waterborne...
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...
Measuring the missing link in port performance evaluation Containers

Measuring the missing link in port performance evaluation

Port performance measurement is continuously gaining ground in contemporary port management. Intense competition and the progressive metamorphosis of port authorities’ idiosyncrasies towards more commercialised and industrialised entities have been vital: ports, in their vast majority, are actively engaged in the complex supply chains...
“Slow port studies” - on the future of maritime economics Category

“Slow port studies” - on the future of maritime economics

Celebrating 25 years since the establishment of the Association, the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Annual Conference organised a special opening session to discuss the future of maritime and port economics. PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis presented a call for a more measured pace port studies...
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