ABSTRACT
Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean, Greece
1 INTRODUCTION
Throughout the last two decades, the focus of port policies in Europe has been on restructuring the port industry and reinforcing the quality of provided services (i.e. by integrating ports in supply chains). Since 2001 these efforts have been accompanied by the search for a collective public policy regime that would ensure secure port operations for all international European ports.
