Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Spanish competition watchdog launches probe into docking companies, trade unions
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Spanish competition regulator Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched...
Santander Coated Solutions to resume expansion of factory at port in March 2018
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Spanish company Santander Coated Solutions SL plans to start the second phase of the development of its...
Genoa-based port authority approves extension of contract with CULMV
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – The board of directors of the Genoa-based port authority has given the green light to the extension of the...
Mediterranean Institute of Maritime Transport ceases activities
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – L’Institut méditerranéen des transports maritimes (IMTM – Mediterranean Institute of...
Vigo port complains to EC about collective labour agreement of dockworkers
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) president Enrique López Veiga filed a complaint with the...
Genoa-based port authority to renew services contract with CULMV
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Genoa-based port authority plans to sign on October 31 an agreement that delays the expiry of the contract with...
Road transport associations to block truck traffic at Genoa port on Nov 2, 3
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) October 23, 2017 – Italian freight road transport associations Cna-Fita, Confartigianato Trasporti, Fai-Conftrasporto and...
Genoa port meets with trade unions
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – During the meeting with Segreterie Confederali CGIL – CISL – UIL (trade unions) held October 6...
Grimaldi Group to hire a further 500 staffers
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – As part of a fleet upgrade, the Grimaldi Group has recently begun the process of selecting and recruiting...
Barcelona port closed on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Barcelona port remained practically closed on October 3, with no trucks moving and the doors of its...
Dockworkers block Catalan ports on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Catalan stevedores have agreed this afternoon to join the general strike called on October 3 in Catalonia....
International dockworkers support colleagues in Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – International stevedores have expressed support for their colleagues in Catalonia after the Barcelona...
Barcelona stevedores refuse to handle government chartered vessel in port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Dockworkers at the port of Barcelona have refused to operate a cruise ship allegedly hired by the...
Puertos del Estado president says docking labour contract should meet rules
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca Ortega has warned trade...
Taranto Port Workers Agency set up to support workforce
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – Taranto Port Workers Agency Srl has been established at the port to support port employment and...
Valencia port to start talks with dockworkers by the end of next week
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to start talks on the Fifth Framework...
Vigo port president says harbour resists to stowage, BIP problems
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has presented...