Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Taranto port unions seek urgent meeting with the Ministry of Transport
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024—Taranto port trade unions Filt CGIL, Fit CISL and Uiltrasporti UIL have sent a formal request for a meeting with...
France 2030: 13 winning projects for the maritime industrial sector
News Release – Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité – March 29, 2024 Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological...
European Dockers protest in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 4, 2024 – Over 100 dockers from various European ports protested yesterday in front of the European Parliament in...
Port System of Western Sicily signs deal with Escola Europea
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2024 – An agreement has been signed between the Port Authority of the Western Sicilian Sea and Escola...
MSC presents terms to take over Wartsila facility, Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2024 – Last month, MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. announced its interest in taking over the plant in...
Unionized port workers plan strike across Italy April 3-5
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2024 – The trade union Fit-Cisl has said that negotiations for renewing the sector’s national collective...
Van Oord to remain based in the Netherlands
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) March 27, 2024 – Dredging company Van Oord has said that it will remain based in the Netherlands, however, further...
Stevedores at Barcelona port refuse to handle military cargo
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2023 – A trade union organisation in the port of Barcelona has said its stevedore members will no longer...
Piraeus Port Authority signs new new Collective Labour Agreement
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) October 11, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has announced the completion of the discussions between the PPA Management...
MSC will maintain workers’ rights in Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – Following a workers’ protest in Hamburg, MSC has said that it will maintain workers’...
Concerns over reduced cargo at Port of La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 16, 2023 – In the first four months of 2023, the port of La Spezia recorded a cargo reduction of -20% compared to the...
Port of Setubal and Angola’s IPM sign agreement
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – APSS – Administration of the Ports of Setúbal and Sesimbra, SA, through the Academia Portuária de...
Thessaloniki Port Authority signs collective labour agreement
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 -uThe agreement regulates the terms of wages and working conditions of the company’s dockworkers’...
Port of Valencia workers receive reachstacker training in Germany
València, Spain (PortSEurope) February 23, 2023 – A delegation from the Port of València has visited the Hyster-Yale Group facilities in Weeze,...
Italian government concerned about port worker safety
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2023 – Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, has convened the Assoporti...
Piraeus Port Authority renews collective labour agreement
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 25, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has resigned the collective labour agreement for three years following...
Port of Livorno, trade unions reach agreement
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2022 – The Port of Livorno and trade unions have reached an agreement to end a 10-day labour strike which has...