In search of The Midas Touch

摘要

"We have just fin-ished our strategic plan and now we are doing the business plan and organisational structures," says Professor Harilaos Psaraftis, managing director of the recently formed Piraeus Port Authority S.A. These structures are due to be in place by the spring, with the emphasis on vertical integration of the port's various units, "The container terminal is already vertically integrated but all other divisions are horizontal. General cargo handling is an example. It cuts across the container terminal and there are fights sometimes between the two because they don't agree on something. Vertical integration will avoid this."