Barcelona port closes 2018 with 534 employees
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) February 14, 2019 – Barcelona port has consolidated its average workforce above half a thousand people. After closing a historical year in traffic…
Spain’s stowage reform marks most disputed trade union elections in recent years
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) February 13, 2019 – Spain's reform of the stowage sector, which put workers and companies on the warpath due to changes in the contracting…
New Malta Freeport collective agreement will lead to improved efficiency
Freeport, Malta (PortSEurope) February 9, 2019 - Malta Freeport Terminals has signed a new collective agreement with the General Workers’ Union for 2018-22 that provides…
Valencia port opens two hours ahead of schedule despite stevedores’ assembly
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) February 7, 2019 – The paralysis of Valencia port by a gathering of stevedores on February 7 has turned out to be…
Friuli Venezia Giulia region to support port sector’s labour market
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) February 3, 2019 – Friuli Venezia Giulia will become the first region in Italy to support the local port authority in providing support for…
Livorno port management analyses labour situation
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 24, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) has approved the new…
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) introduces safety training
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) January 17, 2019 - Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP - Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has financed a…
Portuguese stevedores launch strike at Praia da Vitória port
Praia da Vitória, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 16, 2019 – Portuguese stevedores trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade Logística (SEAL) has started a strike…
Limassol port workers to strike January 16
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – Limassol port's workers plan to stage a 24-hour strike on January 16 to protest against the process at…
Setúbal port strike reduces national November exports
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 - Portugal's Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE - National Statistical Institute) has confirmed that the strike by dockworkers at…
Negotiations of collective agreement with Setúbal port dockworkers resumed
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 - Negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement for the dockworkers at Setúbal port were resumed this week, Lídia Sequeira,…
Genoa port guarantees salaries of dockworkers
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2019 – Genoa port's management has guaranteed the payment of salaries to the employees of dockworkers' company Compagnia Unica. The…
Trade unions express concerns over future of Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Trade unions active at Livorno port have expressed their joint concern about the future development of Livorno port.…
Nissan increases workforce at Barcelona port’s distribution centre
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The Nissan vehicle distribution centre in the port of Barcelona has increased its workforce by almost 50% since the beginning…
Portuguese dockworkers’ strike may cause damage to paper companies
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The strike of dockworkers in Portugal is expected to have a negative impact on the export of paper…
Portuguese dockworkers to launch new six-month strike
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – Portugal's dockworkers' trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade Logística (SEAL) has presented notice of strike at national…
ANESCO urges Adif to restore rail traffic to Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO - Spanish National Association of Stevedoring Companies) has warned that the lack of…
AdSP del Mare Di Sardegna (Cagliari) signs port workers agreement
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 21, 2018 - From 1 April 2019, 29 former employees of Compagnia Lavoratori Portuali di Cagliari (Cagliari Port Workers' Company)…
Sadoport says that client companies considered leaving Setúbal port definitively
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 - The port administrator has said that the conflict between company management and trade unions has put at risk…
Labour conflict causes decline in container traffic at Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Labour instability has resulted in heavy losses in container handling in October in the ports of Lisbon, Setúbal…