labour & workforce issues; trade unions; industrial action; government policy;
Augusta, Italy (PortSEurope) July 15, 2018 – A new strike by employees of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port Authority)... Read more
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) July 13, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority), the University of Bari and T... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2018 – Escola Europea has completed this summer’s SURCO Operations I course for Spanish professionals, which offered introductory training on in... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2018 – The cruise industry is contributing significantly to the smooth running of the Spanish economy, as highlighted yesterday in Barcelona by the di... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) July 10, 2018 – Italian trade unions Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti have confirmed a three-day strike by hauliers, from July 12 to 14, which threatens to par... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 10, 2018 – The tender underway for the coal unloading of the Torrevaldaliga Nord plant in Civitavecchia was called “with the aim of combining an... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 6, 2018 – The cruise handling operations of Civitavecchia port may be blocked as of July 11 when dockers launch a strike against a tender for coal han... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – According to the blog “The Estivador” of the Stevedores Union and Logistics Activity (SEAL), the dockers of Lisbon port have a... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – A dispute has arisen concerning a tender for the handling of coal at Civitavecchia port issued by Enel, an Italian multinational manuf... Read more
Catania, Italy (PortSEurope) July 3, 2018 – The port workers of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern Sicilian Sea Port Authority) have agai... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring Companies) has promoted, together with... Read more
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) July 1, 2018 – Turkey Port Management Association (TÜRKLİM) and Kocaeli Chamber of Industry (KSO) have signed an agreement to provide training to equip s... Read more
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) June 28, 2018 – Luka Bar a.d., the operator of Montenegro’s Bar port, has started paying a total of €3.73 million ($4.35 million) to employees, due to a c... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – Several of the Vigo-based companies that unload their cargo at Portugal’s Leixões harbour are considering returning to Vigo port, due to the c... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 25, 2018 – Representatives of Barcelona port’s operators (ATEC – Cotraport, Associació de Transportistes Empresaris de Contenidors) and Ametra... Read more
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 24, 2018 – At an event organised by Angopi (Associazione nazionale Gruppi Ormeggiatori e Barcaioli Porti Italiani – national association of groups of m... Read more
Trapani, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 23, 2018 – Yesterday, port operators, entrepreneurs, tour operators, trade union representatives and representatives of former CNT workers, me... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 19, 2018 – Comision Nacional de los Mercados y de la Competencia (CNMC – National Commission of Markets and Competition) has described as a very serious... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) Frances... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – In the last 10 years, Galician shipyards have signed orders for around 30 vessels at a value of around €1.2 billion ($1.39 billion). However,... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO) is to use Vigo port as the location for regional training against illegal, unre... Read more
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2018 – Spanish logistics and freight transport company Transfesa (Transportes Ferroviarios Especiales SA) and trade union committees have reached an agre... Read more
Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The port workers of Sicily plan to protest today, in front of the Palermo offices of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Occid... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Spanish employer organisation of the stowage sector Anesco (Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras) has asked the new central government ch... Read more
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Venice, 6 June – The maritime-port culture is to become the theme of study and research in Venice, thanks to the memorandum of understa... Read more
Catania, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The provincial secretariats of Syracuse and Catania of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have proclaimed the state of agitation o... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has negotiated an end to the planned strike by port workers. Having reached a compromise position... Read more
Chernomorsk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 4, 2018 – Employees of Chernomorsk port have protested against the transfer of the port to Hong Hong-based container operator Hutchison Ports. T... Read more
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – A Greek court has ruled that strike action at Piraeus port was illegal and the action has ended. The strike action started last Wednesday w... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – The president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Au... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – Dock workers at the port of Lisbon have started a two-week overtime strike, the Stevedore and Logistics Activity Union (SEAL) said. The un... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2018 – Spain’s government and stevedoring trade unions agreed to extend the deadline for negotiating the new collective agreement in the sector b... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 – The National Union of Workers of the Administrations and Port Boards (SNTAJP – Sindicato Nacional dos Trabalhadores das Administraçõ... Read more
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) May 13, 2018 – The Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti trade unions called for a national strike on May 11, 2018, of maritime workers, port workers and techn... Read more
Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – The Minister of Development and Housing, Felipe López, has described as “key to the momentum of the Andalusian logistics sector”,... Read more
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority) has signed an agreement with lo... Read more
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, met yesterday, with members of the General Workers Union (UGT), at the Ministry of the Sea fac... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – Civitavecchia port has turned to the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) to inquire about the validity and applicability of the... Read more
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – On May 11, there will be a 24-hour national strike of Italian port workers on issues of security. According to the organisers, trade unions Filt-Cgil... Read more
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2018 – Italian trade union Cgil suspended the strike of employees of La Spezia port scheduled for April 28- May 3 on the request of the workers, the sec... Read more
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) April 30, 2018 – Sagunto port’s stowage company Sociedad Anónima de Gestión de Estibadores Portuarios (SESASA) has completed the spin-off of InterSagunto T... Read more
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) April 18, 2018 – Cádiz port stevedores have closed an agreement that lowers their salaries by up to 35%. According to sources from the port, the measure is short-t... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 16, 2018 – Valenciaport Foundation is developing a training programme on fishing-tourism for the fishing sector of the Valencian region, as part of ... Read more
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) April 16, 2018 – Estibarna, a management company of port workers (SAGEP) of Barcelona port, has already started the process of becoming a Port Employment Centr... Read more
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 16, 2018 – Valencia regional association of self-employed persons in the container traffic sector Transcont CV (TransCont Comunitat Valenciana) has met wi... Read more
Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport promotes Formati al Porto in Italy Civitavecchia, March 26, 2018 On March 26, 2018, the director of the Escola Europea – Intermodal Transport, Edu... Read more
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) April 13, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority) has ho... Read more
Sines.Portugal (PortSEurope) April 13, 2018 – APS — Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve, S.A. (Administration of the Ports of Sines and the Algarve) has providing a general... Read more
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) April 9, 2018 – Vigo port will host the “Training Hub” of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to prepare inspectors for the monit... Read more
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) April 8, 2018 – The Carnival Horizon cruise ship was built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Porto Marghera, but was presented in Monfalcone and consigned in T... Read more