Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
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 (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) 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 (PortSEurope) February 14, 2023 – Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, has convened the Assoporti...
Port of Monfalcone increases staff recruitment
Monfalcone, Italy (PortSEurope) December 23, 2022 – The North Adriatic Port of Monfalcone is recruiting new staff with 50 new workers sought. The process...
Port of Livorno, trade unions reach agreement
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) October 6, 2022 – The Port of Livorno and trade unions have reached an agreement to end a 10-day labour strike which has...
Port of Bilbao signs stevedore agreement
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) September 23, 2022 – The Port of Bilbao has signed a stevedore collective agreement with the relevant companies and trade...
Worker strikes start at ports of Livorno, Piombino & Elba
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) September 12, 2022 – Worker strikes have started at the ports of Livorno, Piombino & Elba following the collapse of...
Friuli Venezia Giulia to challenge Wartsila Trieste plant closure in court
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) September 5, 2022 – Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia is to challenge the plant closure planned by Wärtsilä. In July, the...
Wärtsilä to stop engine manufacturing in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 26, 2022 – The Finnish company Wärtsilä will stop manufacturing 4-stroke engines in Trieste. It will centralize...
Piraeus Port Authority signs new agreement with the Union of Supervisors & Foremen
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 27, 2022 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has signed a new three year Collective Labour Agreement with the Union of...
APM Terminals Algeciras opens earlier to ease truck queue
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 1, 2022 – APM Terminals Algeciras has agreed to open the terminal in the time period 0200-0800 in order to relive...
New Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in Port of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 1, 2022 – A new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been signed between Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) and the...
Libya’s port of Marsa el-Brega under force majeure
Tripoli, Libya (PortSEurope) April 20, 2022 – Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has said it will implement force majeure...