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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?

    Cruise Port-City Compass

    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 "Thanos Pallis"

Considering the perspectives of port users Featured

Considering the perspectives of port users

PortEconomics members Mary Brooks and Thanos Pallis discuss the need for "Considering port users perspectives" in a viewpoint article publised in Port Technolgy International . The quest for performance measurement has always been a key issue for ports. Port managers, whether port authorities or terminal operators, need to organise...
Port studies in MPM: reviewing advances, discussing challenges, identifying research streams Featured

Port studies in MPM: reviewing advances, discussing challenges, identifying research streams

With ports being a key component of modern tranportation system, there is a growing research interest  in port economics, management and policy issues. Maritime Policy & Management (MPM), the flagship journal of maritime studies, has been a publication that advanced the knowledge and understanding of ports since its inception in...
Port performance & strategy Featured

Port performance & strategy

Port Performance and Strategy is the theme of the 8th volume of the scholarly journal Research in Transportation Business and Management. PortEconomics members Mary Brooks and Athanasios Pallis edit this special issue that contains 21 port studies presenting state of the art research on port governance, organisation and...
OECD Round-Table on port investment and container shipping markets starts on Thursday (Santiago, Chile 7-8 Nov) Containers

OECD Round-Table on port investment and container shipping markets starts on Thursday (Santiago, Chile 7-8 Nov)

The OECD International Transport Forum Roundtable on Port Investment and Container Shipping Markets, planned jointly with the Government of Chile, will examine the broader issues that influence the development of container transport, will take please this week in Santiago, Chile, from 7 to 8 November 2013 PortEconomics members will...
European port policy as an opportunity European Port Policy

European port policy as an opportunity

 By Thanos Pallis PortEconomics co-director Thanos Pallis intervenes on the importance of the European Port Polcy review for national level port reforms in a viewpoint article published in the latest issue of the major Greek shipping magazine Naftika Chronika. In his editorial entitled "Ευropean Port Policy: An opportunity to...
PORTOPIA: PortEconomics leads the flagship european project Featured

PORTOPIA: PortEconomics leads the flagship european project

PortEconomics members, joined by leading researchers and firms in Europe embark in a new major reasearch program aiming at improving the resource efficiency and competitiveness of the European Port System. This is one of the flagship research projects financially supported by the European Commission, in an attempt to facilitate...
Challenges to port restructuring: lessons from (failed) reforms Featured

Challenges to port restructuring: lessons from (failed) reforms

During the Irish Ports Association 2013 Conference, held in Dublin, PortEconomics co-director Τhanos Pallis presented the lessons that European ports and policy makers might learn from cases of countries that failed to conclude port reforms, extracting lessons from the Greek case The 2013 IPA conference brought together an elite panel...
Port & the city: economic challenges to port-city relations Featured

Port & the city: economic challenges to port-city relations

PortEconomics co-directors Thanos Pallis and Theo Notteboom were invited by the OECD to shape the OECD Conference on Port-Cities that take place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. PortEconomics reports, on the key themes of their presentations. Theo's keynote speech on "Economic challenges to port-city relations" was delivered in a session...
Can ILO Port Labour Conventions serve port labour reforms? Featured

Can ILO Port Labour Conventions serve port labour reforms?

International labour standards have grown into a system of tools for effecting work and social policy, backed by a supervisory system designed to address a variety of problems at the national level. Historically, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has acted as the international organisation which develops a system of...
"Beyond the box": Cruise ports central stage at the PPRN agenda Cruise

"Beyond the box": Cruise ports central stage at the PPRN agenda

Cruise ports and the development of a related research agenda have been at the core of the discussions during the 11th Port Performance Research Network (PPRN) that met in Marseilles France. Looking 'beyond the box', PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and Jean-Paul Rodrigue presented to PPRN members the themes of a research agenda...
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