The marketing information system of the greek shipping company

Abstract

This article titled “The Marketing Information System (MIS) of the Greek Shipping
Company”, presents the MIS that should be ideally followed by companies, which are activated
in merchant shipping. The article describes the characteristics of the MIS’ subsystems, such as
the internal file, the marketing information, the marketing research and the marketing decision
support subsystem. Additionally, the article attempts a comparative analysis of the MIS that
is applied in bulk and liner shipping companies. From bulk shipping, the tanker shipping
companies were chosen and from liner shipping, the container shipping companies were chosen
for investigation. The paper presents the results of the quantitative research that was carried
out in 2005 concerning the Marketing Information System of the Greek Shipping Companies.