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All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.

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,...

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 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 (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...

Port of Bilbao signs stevedore agreement

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) 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 (Ports Europe) 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 (Ports Europe) 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 (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – APM Terminals Algeciras has agreed to open the terminal in the time period 0200-0800 in order to relive...

Port work agency formed in Port of Cagliari

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 17, 2022 – A new port work agency has been formed in Port of Cagliari. KALPOR.T. srl is officially...

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