Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Volkswagen plant in Pamela faces production suspension due to Setúbal port strike
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – Autoeuropa, the Volkswagen AG can manufacturing facility in Palmela, has no further space to store...
BMW looks at exports from Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – German carmaker BMW AG is considering the launch of a regular line at Vigo port, as it faces difficulties in...
Setúbal port strike delays pig exports to China
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 13, 2018 – An export of pigs from Portugal to China will be delayed to January from December, due to the strike of...
Italian court reinstates 30 workers of Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – An Italian court has reinstated 30 of the 377 workers of the port of Gioia Tauro who were fired in July...
Italy offers rental of two vessels to save Liberty Lines’ jobs
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – Italy’s infrastructure ministry has proposed the rental of two vessels with a reinforced hull to...
McAndrews, Tarros, Arkas suspend calls to Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 30, 2018 – Three international shipowners, McAndrews, Tarros, and Arkas, have suspended their calls to Setúbal...
Consortium of Zona Franca launches collaboration with Escola in Forma’t al Port
News – Consortium of the Zona Franca launches its collaboration with the Escola in Forma’t al Port – Barcelona, November 27, 2018 On the 26th of...
Brindisi port authority introduces whistleblower servic
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
Portuguese government hosts talks to solve Setúbal port labour issues
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – After a meeting yesterday, Minister of the Sea Ana Paula Vitorino, said that the union, the operators...
Croatian shipbuilder 3. maj employees to meet Fincantieri management on November 27
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) November 26, 2018 – Trade union representatives of Croatian troubled shipbuilder 3. maj, part of Uljanik group, plan to meet...
Portugal’s AutoEuropa to remove 2,000 cars from Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – Portuguese automotive assembly plant operator AutoEuropa Automóveis, Lda., part of Volkswagen AG,...
Italy’s Confirarma calls on government to ensure jobs of Liberty Lines employees
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – Italian shipping company association Confitarma has requested the country’s transport ministry to...
AdSP Bari hosts “Ports, Retroports and Special Economic Zones” training
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2018 – The Short Master training in “Ports, Retroports and Special Economic Zones” has started at the...
US Coast Guard runs training programme for Ukrainian ports
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) November 17, 2018 – On November 12-16, 2018, a delegation of the International Coastal Security Ports Security...
VW diverts vehicle traffic to Spanish ports from Setúbal
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) November 16, 2018 – The strike at Setúbal port has forced Volkswagen AG to divert vehicles produced in its Palmela factory in...