Posts tagged with "Thanos Pallis"

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...
European port policy at a crossroads European Port Policy

European port policy at a crossroads

Fourteen years since its first attempt, the EU is still searching for a European port policy able to increase the competitiveness of European ports. PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and George Vaggelas in their article at "Naftika Chronika" magazine argue that market access to port services is no longer the "Holy Grail" for the EU's...
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...
Waste reception facilities in cruise ports: the case of the Med Cruise

Waste reception facilities in cruise ports: the case of the Med

With cruise activities in the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas increasing, the cruise world takes initiatives to handle the produced externalities, including the wastes produced on cruise ships. In recent times, cruise lines and ports have put a lot of efforts into reducing, selecting and managing generated wastes implementing the...
Beyond productivity: understanding container port performance Containers

Beyond productivity: understanding container port performance

Port users perceptions of their experience in a given port, do matter and port performance measurement needs to take this into account argue Thanos Pallis and George Vaggelas in their latest port study that was presented at the 5th International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management & Economics (SOME 2015) held in Athens,...
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...
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