Puertos del Estado reaches agreement on collective labour contract
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has said that an agreement has been reached with trade unions…
Trade unions call off strike at Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 16, 2019 – Spanish trade unions CCOO, UGT and CIG have called off the 24-hour port strike scheduled for April 17,…
Spanish trade union CCOO calls port workers strike on April 17
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 11, 2019 – Spanish trade union CC OO union has called a strike of 21 hours of port workers on April…
Spain’s Anesco, Puertos del Estado ask for support for reform of stowage sector
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 3, 2019 – Spanish stevedoring companies association Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (Anesco) and national ports agency Puertos del Estado have…
Spanish State Gazette publishes law reforming stevedoring sector
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 1, 2019 – The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published the royal decree law approved by the government that completes the liberalisation of…
Spain approves aid to longshoremen including in downsizing schemes
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) March 29, 2019 – Spain's government has approved the Royal Decree-Law which develops the reform of the stowage sector approved almost two years…
Spain reiterates need to impose protectionist towing rules
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) February 15, 2019 – Spain's Public Works Ministry has informed the European Commission that it considers necessary the imposition of an obligation of…
Spain’s stowage reform marks most disputed trade union elections in recent years
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 – Spain's reform of the stowage sector, which put workers and companies on the warpath due to changes in the contracting…
ANESCO is committed to “increasing the competitiveness of ports” by improving its management model
Madrid, February 7, 2019 The executive committee of the National Association of Stevedoring Companies has met today in Madrid and has analyzed different aspects of…
Valencia port opens two hours ahead of schedule despite stevedores’ assembly
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) February 7, 2019 – The paralysis of Valencia port by a gathering of stevedores on February 7 has turned out to be…
Spain’s SLP records 4% rise in cargo traffic at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2019 – Servicios Logísticos Portuarios, S.A. (SLP), a stevedoring company based in the port of Bilbao, closed 2018 with positive…
ANESCO urges Adif to restore rail traffic to Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO - Spanish National Association of Stevedoring Companies) has warned that the lack of…
Taganrog Sea Commercial Port reports increased investment in environment management
Taganrog, Russia (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 - In January-September 2018, Taganrog Sea Commercial Port (TagSCP) invested $67,300 in its environmental programme, up 6% on the same…
Spain’s Anesco warns against negative effects on stowage sector of social contributions rise
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2018 – Spanish stowage employer union Anesco (Asociación de Empresas Estibadoras/National Association of Stevedoring Companies) considers a possible rise in…
Spain’s anti-trust regulator initiates probe into Algeciras port trade unions, associations
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 17, 2018 – Spain's competition regulator La Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has initiated a probe into…
General Stevedoring Council visits Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) September 18, 2018 – A group of managers of different stevedoring companies belonging to the General Stevedoring Council (GSC), of which Spanish…
Yilport comments on ports workers strike
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) September 16, 2018 - Yilport, the Turkish port operator, which has Portuguese interests, has said that the port workers strike is greatly…
Algeciras port completes stevedoring liberalisation
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) September 14, 2018 – Algeciras port has completed its adoptation to the reform of the stowage sector approved last year to break…
Las Palmas stevedores agree to reduce stowage costs by 10%
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) September 12, 2018 – The four stevedoring companies that make up the Stowage Society of Las Palmas (Sagep) have reached an agreement…
Vigo port may benefit from Lisbon stevedores strike
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) September 12, 2018 – The month-long stevedores' strike initiated this week in Lisbon could lead to traffic avoiding the capital and instead…