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    Risk-driven supply chain designs – a re-assessment with geopolitical and geoeconomic considerations

    Risk-driven supply chain designs – a re-assessment with geopolitical and geoeconomic considerations

    Rhine-Scheldt delta port system

    Rhine-Scheldt delta port system

    A metric of global maritime supply chain disruptions: The global supply chain stress index - maritime (GSCSI-M)

    A metric of global maritime supply chain disruptions: The global supply chain stress index - maritime (GSCSI-M)

    ESG disclosure as a proxy of port corporate communication and sustainable management strategy: An LDA approach

    ESG disclosure as a proxy of port corporate communication and sustainable management strategy: An LDA approach

    From coal exports to green steel production? The role of circular economy precincts for sustainable port diversification

    From coal exports to green steel production? The role of circular economy precincts for sustainable port diversification

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    PortGraphic: Container port dynamics near Gibraltar

    PortGraphic: Container port dynamics near Gibraltar

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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?

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Posts tagged with "Thanos Pallis"

Private entry in cruise terminal operations in the Mediterranean Sea Cruise

Private entry in cruise terminal operations in the Mediterranean Sea

Aiming to effectively respond to calls for upgrading cruise terminals, while safeguarding public spending, port authorities started to seek the active involvement of third parties to finance, construct, operate, and/or commercially develop cruise facilities. Specialized cruise terminals replace multi-purpose or temporary docking...
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...
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...
Learning from statistics: what do trends in the top-15 cruise ports in the Med tell us? Category

Learning from statistics: what do trends in the top-15 cruise ports in the Med tell us?

As data of cruise traffic hosted by European ports were revealed this week at the 2018 edition of the annual Seatrade Cruise Global event, held in Florida, US, it is worth diving in the details to better understand the trends in the Mediterranean cruise port system. Analysis by Thanos Pallis While this has been the year that the...
The relationship between port choice and terminal involvement of alliance members in container shipping Category

The relationship between port choice and terminal involvement of alliance members in container shipping

In which ways the changing organizational routines of shipping (i.e., alliance formation and vertical integration in container terminal operations) are affecting the selection of ports of call in intercontinental liner service networks? The latest port study by PortEconomics members Theo Notteboom, Francesco Parola, Giovanni...
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...
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