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,…
Italian trade unions suspend talks on renewal of national contract for port workers
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) April 15, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti has suspended the negotiations for the renewal of the…
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…
Norway-based WWO organises RoRo Academy at Santander port
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) April 1, 2019 – Norway-based shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean (WWO), in collaboration with Santander port, has organised in Santander the first Ro-Ro Academy,…
Koper port piloting services employees to launch strike in April
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) March 28, 2019 – Koper port's piloting services employees plan to launch a strike on April 3 to demand greater safety at…
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…
Valenciaport Foundation signs cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Infrastructure of Brazil and port associations
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) March 26, 2019 - At the Intermodal South America fair, held in São Paulo from March 19 to 21, a cooperation agreement…
Sintraport presents proposals to negotiate the transport conditions of Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport has asked the Barcelona port authority and the Catalan regional government to resume negotiating tables…
Piraeus Port Authority sign labour agreement
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) March 22, 2019 - Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has announced the signing of the New Collective Labour Agreement with the representatives of…
Transcont Valencia announces five days of strikes
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) March 21, 2019 – Autonomous truck drivers association Transcont Valencia association plans to carry out demonstrations on March 21 in protest against the failure…
Valenciaport Foundation attends meeting of the SKILLFUL project in Dublin
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) March 20, 2019 - On the 7-8 March, the Valenciaport Foundation attended a follow-up meeting of the SKILLFUL (Skills and Competence Development…
Sintraport ends strikes at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 20, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport has decided not to call new mobilisations and to sit down again on the…
Sintraport’s strike in Barcelona may spread to other ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) March 19, 2019 – While the longshoremen's conflict remains latent in Spanish ports, it is now the transporters who are mobilising, threatening to paralyse the harbours.…
Barcelona port expresses willingness to dialogue with Sintraport
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 19, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport held a day of protest in the centre of Barcelona, which adds to the…
Italian trade unions back Naples port workers strike against self-handling
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) March 12, 2019 – The national secretariats of Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti confirmed the support for today's strike in…
Spain’s Sintraport continues protest action in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 18, 2019 – After five days of demonstrations and strikes in the port of Barcelona, Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport is carrying out…
Spain’s Sintraport to continue protest action next week
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 15, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport plans to continue its protest action in Barcelona next week. The association has applied…
Sintraport in talks on working conditions to continue strike next week
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 14, 2019 – Spanish autonomous truck drivers association Sintraport is holding meetings with companies active at Barcelona port to adjust the prices of their…
Italian trade unions call strike of CULMV employees at Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) March 13, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have called a strike of the employees of Genoa port…