OPSPEMAPT - Organisation of port Services production and Efficiency Management - Administration of Passenger Terminals
Overview
Background & policy context:
The last years there is an ongoing transformation of the port industry. The increased involvement of private companies, the technological changes, and the globalisation have rapidly transformed the ports. There is a need to rationally distribute the benefits from port services provision and to set the boundaries between the public and private sector in order to have a fair allocation of the benefits and moreover to distribute the costs from the port operation.
Objectives:
The objective of the project is to identify the qualitative and quantitative specifications of the efficient organisational, functional and administrative characteristics, which should be acquired by the port passenger terminals, in order to satisfy the requirements for efficient users service. The research focuses:
- on the rational distribution of port operation costs, based on the direct or indirect benefits acquired by the public and private sectors because of the port operation; and
- on the quantification of the benefits resulting for the various companies (port, shipping, inland transport, logistics, etc) and other stakeholders (port authorities etc) involved in the provision of passenger port services.
Methodology:
The project has four major sections:
- The theoretical review (literature of port development, business organisation, private/public sectors involvement in business etc);
- The survey of research projects in port management and port planning;
- Quantitative and qualitative field research in order to collect data on the benefits of transport companies from port services provisional and
- Verification or rejection of hypotheses in the case of the passenger terminal of Port of Piraeus.
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