The Maritime Economist Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 56

THEMARITIME Economist

Memories
The event’s Official Provider of Express Mail Services
was DHL Express.
The conference finally attracted 230 abstracts from
which 168 were accepted to proceed to the full
paper stage. The abstracts submitted in total for
consideration originated from 125 institutions. Out
of those, 123 peer-reviewed papers were finally
presented at the 36 sessions of the conference, and
represented maritime academic institutions from 34
countries around the world and from 5 continents.
In addition, senior Government officials and shipping
executives were keynote speakers at the
Conference, presenting their views and positions
on the development and progress of the Greek and
International shipping. The largest participation
came from academic institutions in Europe (56.3%),
followed by institutions from Asia (14.3%). The
remaining participation came from North America
(14.2%), Oceania (8.0%), US (5.4%) and Africa
(1.8%).

ME Mag

The