In this paper, we examine the financial literacy, thus the financial behaviour of 352 Greek households. In turn, we compare our findings with results from a similar survey we conducted on an equivalent sample of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our aim was to realise if there is any...

It has been accepted that when an area or zone has been approved as being particularly sensitive, some specific measures against maritime activities and environmental issues can be adopted for monitoring and control. Marine zones have been used around the world as an important resource...

Reducing ship accidents at sea is important to all economic, environmental, and cultural sectors of Greece. Despite an increase in traffic and national monitoring, ships formulate routes according to their best judgment risking an accident. In this study we take a dataset spanning in 3 years...

The evolution of the maritime Piracy phenomenon constitutes of a top-priority issue for the global maritime community. In this work, the phenomenon of Modern Maritime Piracy as well as the analysis of current countermeasures and deterring strategies of pirate attacks are investigated and their...

Nowadays, decision making in maritime transportation includes information for obligatory or not regulations related to quality, safety and security. Decisions of this nature have a significant effect on the actual cost of quality, safety and security in maritime transport. Although regulatory...

The purpose of this study is to examine the general media’s portrayal of important maritime accidents which in the maritime media receive widespread publicity and are likely to have an impact on the shipping community’s social image. To this purpose, news framing theories were researched and...

Seafarers' welfare is becoming a major issue for the international maritime community. This paper aims at examining the effect of welfare interventions onboard and ashore in the development and promotion of seafarers’ well-being. For this, it analyses the theoretical context of welfare and its...

The present study focuses on a comprehensive analysis of recorded accidents of medium and large oil tankers (deadweight over 20,000 tonnes), which occurred after the introduction of OPA90 and until today. Raw casualty data was reviewed and re-analysed in order to produce appropriate statistics...

The aim of this paper is to present aspects of the implemented statistical analysis and patterns of the recorded maritime fire accidents. In this context, a focused database was created taking into account the specific sources for the data available; hence, the data was collected from selected...

The significant development of Ship to Ship (STS) transfer of cargo operations originates from different operational and trading reasons and factors, all of which however in the context of optimizing the distribution plan between the source and the final consumers (markets). The transferred...