What is the relevance of port integrity to fighting corruption in ports and shipping? What is the current situation of port integrity?
Corruption in ports remains one of the most persistent and least visible disruptions to global maritime trade. It creates delays, increases costs, and erodes trust between authorities and operators.
PortEconomics members Thanos Pallis and Gordon Wilmsmeier invite you to read the 2nd GPIP White Paper: Global Port Integrity Platform (GPIP) – A Data-Driven Assessment of Port Integrity Worldwide (here).
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Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)
Over the last 5 years, GPIP has grown from around 100 to over 300 ports.
GPIP helps bridge this gap by transforming individual experiences into structured, comparable insights.
Today, the Global Port Integrity Platform (GPIP) provides visibility across more than 300 ports worldwide. 
This 2nd White Paper draws on that dataset to show where risks are concentrated, where progress is emerging, and how integrity commitments are being implemented in practice. The result is a practical resource for ports, shipping companies, authorities, and policymakers seeking to address corruption as a concrete operational issue rather than an abstract one.
The work is the result of our long-term collaboration between the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), Department of Maritime Studies-University of Piraeus (Greece), Universidad De Los Andes Faculty of Administration (Colombia), and Center for Shipping and Global Logistics, KLU Kühne Logistics University Thanks a lot to the Team:
– Martin Benderson and Ignacio Cantor, Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)
– Andreas Hadjikofinas, University of Piraeus
– Gordon Wilmsmeier & Gustavo Martinez Kühne Professorial Chair in Logistics – University of Los Andes, Universidad De Los Andes Faculty of Administration, PortEconomics.eu
READ THE WHITE PAPER HERE.
