Piraeus Port Authority signs new agreement with the Dockworkers’ Union
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 13, 2019 - Piraeus Port Authority SA has signed a new three-year Collective Labour Agreement with the representatives of Dockworkers’ Union.…
Contship subsidiary approves plan to dismiss 120 workers
Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) June 10, 2019 – Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT), a subsidiary of Contship Italia, has announced a downsizing plan for 210 employees. The…
CICT fails to pay May salaries to Cagliari port employees
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 4, 2019 – Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT), a subsidiary of Contship Italia, has not paid the salaries of its…
Spain signs collective labour agreement for port workers
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador De la Encina, has met with union representatives to sign the…
Setúbal port dockworkers approve collective labour deal
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – Setúbal port's dockworkers unanimously approved the new collective bargaining agreement negotiated between trade unions and employers. According to…
Setúbal port’s strike damages Portuguese economic growth in 2018
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – The protests of the workers in the port of Setúbal, which occurred last year, significantly damaged the export…
Genoa port ship repair workers to strike on May 16
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Italian trade union Fiom Cgil plans to stage a strike of ship repair workers at Genoa port on May 16 in…
Mostaganem port workers end 18-day strike
Mostaganem, Algeria (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – The workers of the port of Mostaganem resumed work on May 13, after a strike which lasted 18 days. This resumption…
Italian trade unions to stage 24-hour port strike on May 23
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 9, 2019 – Italian trade unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti plan to jointly hold a 24-hour strike of port workers…
Ceuta port generates 25% of city’s employment
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 7, 2019 – The employment impact of Ceuta port of has been the central base of the study presented by a group of experts from…
Spanish stevedoring committee approves modification of Bilbao port’s collective labour agreement
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 6, 2019 – Spanish stevedoring sector joint committee has approved the agreement to modify Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB - Port…
Italy’s Uiltrasport warns of potential strike at ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) April 30, 2019 – Italian trade union Uiltrasporti has warned agains a potential strike at ports in the country agains the slow…
Setúbal port approves extension of collective labour deal talks deadline
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 26, 2019 – Setúbal port dockworkers have approved the extension until May 8 of the negotiation period for the new collective…
Spain’s CCOO calls off ports strike scheduled for April 26
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2019 – Spanish trade union CCOO (Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras) has called off the strike scheduled for April 26 in…
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…