DIAKINISIS A.E APOTHIKEFSEIS-METAFORES -SYSKEVASIES

Their core work

DIAKINISIS (Greek for "circulation/distribution") is a Greek private company whose name explicitly describes its core business: warehousing (apothikefseis), freight transport (metafores), and packaging (syskevasies). Based in Aspropyrgos near Athens and the port of Piraeus, they are a commercial logistics and supply chain operator rather than a technology developer. In the H2020 program they participated as an industry end-user and real-world testbed operator — contributing their port and warehouse facilities as operational environments where 5G network solutions could be tested under live commercial conditions. Their research value is not in building technology, but in validating it inside an actual running logistics business.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Both projects launched in 2021, so meaningful chronological evolution is limited. However, the keyword shift across the two projects tells a clear story: DEDICAT 6G positioned DIAKINISIS in the abstract 5G/6G network research space — intelligence distribution, dynamic coverage, security and privacy — suggesting a first exposure to the research ecosystem. VITAL-5G then brought the focus back to their home domain, applying 5G specifically to transport, logistics, ports, and warehouses where they operate commercially. The trajectory is from broad 5G participation toward concrete logistics-sector application.

DIAKINISIS appears to be positioning its physical logistics infrastructure — port terminals and warehouses — as a reference site for 5G-enabled supply chain applications, a role that will grow in demand as Industry 4.0 connectivity projects multiply.

How they like to work

DIAKINISIS has participated exclusively as a consortium partner, never as a project coordinator — consistent with an industry operator that brings operational context and physical sites rather than research leadership. Their two projects together involved 29 distinct partners across 12 countries, meaning they work within large, multi-stakeholder international consortia typical of EU 5G flagship programs. This pattern suggests they are recruited into consortia to provide logistics-sector credibility and a real deployment environment, not to drive the research agenda.

Despite only two projects, DIAKINISIS has touched 29 unique partner organizations across 12 countries — a wide footprint that reflects the large multi-partner structure of EU 5G research programs. Their network is European in scope but anchored in Greece, giving them connections to major telecoms and ICT research actors across the continent.

What sets them apart

As a commercial logistics operator in an otherwise technology-heavy research space, DIAKINISIS fills a gap that purely academic or tech partners cannot: they offer an authentic, revenue-generating logistics environment — real port operations, real warehouses, real freight flows — where 5G solutions face actual commercial pressure. For any consortium needing a Greek industrial testbed or logistics-sector validation partner, there are very few alternatives that combine operational credibility with established EU project experience. Their location near Piraeus, one of Europe's busiest ports, adds further site value for maritime and port logistics trials.

Highlights from their portfolio

• VITAL-5G
  The larger grant (EUR 213,150) and the direct alignment with DIAKINISIS's core business — port and warehouse SME experimentation — make this their most operationally significant project and the clearest evidence of their testbed role.
• DEDICAT 6G
  Participation in a 6G research project (not just 5G) signals that DIAKINISIS is engaged at the technology frontier, beyond immediate commercial deployment cycles.