SHORTSEA & COASTAL SHIPPING (1992-2020)

My involvement with shortsea shipping and coastal shipping was mainly at NTUA, and I had two projects there: 

 

·       “Greek Coastal Shipping: Status, Prospects, and Investment Opportunities” (January - December 1993). Hellenic Industrial Development Bank (ETBA). See HERE.

·       “Technical Secretariat, Concerted Action on Shortsea Shipping,” (June 1995- March 2000).  Commission of European Communities, Directorate General for Transport -Transport Research Programme (multi-partner project, NTUA Leader, H.N. Psaraftis Consortium Manager). See HERE.

 

The first project was a project that mapped the Greek coastal shipping system and investigated many issues, including those related to the impending cabotage deregulation in 2004. I even wrote a book on the subject, published by the Eugenides Foundation (2006)- see No. 10 below. That book is both in Greek and in English, as it is an annotated collection of papers and articles of mine on this subject.

The second project (SSS-CA) was the first of the three EU projects that I coordinated on behalf of NTUA, and dealt with shortsea shipping. It lasted almost five years and provided a platform of dissemination of EU research in shortsea shipping, ports and intermodal transport. The project overlapped significantly with my time as CEO of the port of Piraeus, and through it I met many people from the maritime industry in Europe. It was pretty exciting.

There was a series of SSS “roundtable” conferences, organized by colleagues Niko Wijnolst and Chris Peeters in 1992 (Delft), 1994 (Αthens) and 1996 (Bergen). My appointment as CEO in the port of Piraeus came about a month after the 1996 conference.

 I also had a SSS-related project at DTU, but this is under the emissions category (RoRoSECA project).

1.     Psaraftis, H.N., A.D. Papanikolaou, 1992, Impact of New Technologies on Shortsea Shipping in Greece, First European Research Roundtable Conference on Shortsea Shipping, Delft, the Netherlands, November.

2.     Psaraftis, H.N., V. F. Magirou, G. C. Nassos, G. J. Nellas, G. Panagakos, A. D. Papanikolaou, 1994, Modal Split in Greek Shortsea Passenger/Car Transport. Second European Research Roundtable Conference on Shortsea Shipping, Atheens, Greece, June.

3.     Sturmey, S.G., G. Panagakos, H.N. Psaraftis. Institutional and Socioeconomic Issues in Greek Ferry Services, 1994, Second European Research Roundtable Conference on Shortsea Shipping, Athens, June.

4.     Psaraftis, H.N., G.J. Nellas, V.F. Magirou, G.C. Nassos, 1994, Greek Coastal Shipping System: Impact of New Technologies and Market Deregulation on  Modal Split. TRISTAN-2 Conference, Capri, Italy, June.

5.     Psaraftis, H.N., O. D. Schinas, 1996, Research in European Shortsea Shipping: the State of the Art, Third European Research Roundtable Conference on Shortsea Shipping, Bergen, Norway, June.

6.     Schinas, O.D., H.N. Psaraftis, 1996, The link between Greece and the rest of EU countries: Status and prospects, Third European Research Roundtable Conference on Shortsea Shipping, Bergen, Norway, June.

7.     Schinas, O.D., H.N. Psaraftis, 1997, New Frontiers Through Shortsea Shipping, Transactions of  SNAME Conference, Ottawa, Canada.

8.     Schinas, O, H.N. Psaraftis, 2004, Analysis of the Greek Coastal Shipping Companies with a Multi-Criteria Evaluation Model, TRANSTEC conference, Athens, September.

9.     Corres, A.J., H.N. Psaraftis, 2005, A Generic Ship for the Shortsea Trades of the EU, 1^st International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management and Economics, SNAME Greek Section, Athens, May.

10.  (BOOK) Psaraftis, H.N., 2006, Greek Coastal Shipping and Cabotage, Eugenides Foundation Publications, Athens, Greece.

11.  Nitsopoulos, S., H.N. Psaraftis, 2007, Short Sea Shipping in the Mediterranean: Time for Change, (in Greek), 1^st International Conference on Competition and Complementarity of Transport Modes, Chios, Greece, May.

12.  Nitsopoulos, S., H.N. Psaraftis, 2008, The Role of Mediterranean Short Sea Shipping in the EU Transport Chain: the case of Greece, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs,  Vol. 7, No. 1, 17-30, 2008.

13.  Psaraftis, H.N., Zis, T., 2020, European Policies for Short Sea Shipping and Intermodality, chapter in Santos, T.A. (ed.) Short Sea Shipping in the Age of Sustainable Development and Information Technology, Routledge.

Link to the SSS-CA page HERE

Link to the Greek Coastal Shipping page HERE. Link to related papers HERE.