Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Bar port operator paying €3.73 million compensation to employees
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – Luka Bar a.d., the operator of Montenegro’s Bar port, has started paying a total of €3.73 million...
Companies may leave Leixões port over BIP problems
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – Several of the Vigo-based companies that unload their cargo at Portugal’s Leixões harbour are considering...
Barcelona port companies complain about container supervision rules
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Representatives of Barcelona port’s operators (ATEC – Cotraport, Associació de Transportistes...
Angopi event in Naples highlights key issues for Italian moormen and boatmen
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 24, 2018 – At an event organised by Angopi (Associazione nazionale Gruppi Ormeggiatori e Barcaioli Porti Italiani –...
Trapani port authority meets port operators and local entrepreneurs
Trapani, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 23, 2018 – Yesterday, port operators, entrepreneurs, tour operators, trade union representatives and...
Spain’s competition watchdog may impose fine on Vigo port’s stevedoring service
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Comision Nacional de los Mercados y de la Competencia (CNMC – National Commission of Markets and...
Civitavecchia port signs labour agreement
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
Vigo port to host FAO training against illegal fishing
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO) is to use Vigo port as the location for regional...
Spain’s Transfesa agrees payroll increase in 2018, 2019
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2018 – Spanish logistics and freight transport company Transfesa (Transportes Ferroviarios Especiales SA) and trade...
Sicily port workers plan Palermo protest
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The port workers of Sicily plan to protest today, in front of the Palermo offices of Autorita’ di Sistema...
Spain’s Anesco wishes to participate in development of port business plans
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Spanish employer organisation of the stowage sector Anesco (Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras) has...
Venice port authority signs research study with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Venice, 6 June – The maritime-port culture is to become the theme of study and research in Venice,...
Augusta and Catania ports face labour disruptions
Catania, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The provincial secretariats of Syracuse and Catania of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have...
Portuguese port strike cancelled
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has negotiated an end to the planned strike by port workers....
Workers at Chernomorsk port protest against Hutchison Ports concession
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 4, 2018 – Employees of Chernomorsk port have protested against the transfer of the port to Hong Hong-based...
Piraeus port reported back to normal after strike action
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – A Greek court has ruled that strike action at Piraeus port was illegal and the action has ended. The strike...
Port of Lisbon dockers begin two-week overtime strike
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – Dock workers at the port of Lisbon have started a two-week overtime strike, the Stevedore and Logistics...