Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Italian government concerned about port worker safety
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2023 – Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, has convened the Assoporti...
Piraeus Port Authority renews collective labour agreement
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 25, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has resigned the collective labour agreement for three years following...
Port of Monfalcone increases staff recruitment
Monfalcone, Italy (PortSEurope) December 23, 2022 – The North Adriatic Port of Monfalcone is recruiting new staff with 50 new workers sought. The process...
Port of Livorno, trade unions reach agreement
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2022 – The Port of Livorno and trade unions have reached an agreement to end a 10-day labour strike which has...
Port of Bilbao signs stevedore agreement
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 23, 2022 – The Port of Bilbao has signed a stevedore collective agreement with the relevant companies and trade...
Worker strikes start at ports of Livorno, Piombino & Elba
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2022 – Worker strikes have started at the ports of Livorno, Piombino & Elba following the collapse of...
Friuli Venezia Giulia to challenge Wartsila Trieste plant closure in court
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 5, 2022 – Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia is to challenge the plant closure planned by Wärtsilä. In July, the...
Wärtsilä to stop engine manufacturing in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 26, 2022 – The Finnish company Wärtsilä will stop manufacturing 4-stroke engines in Trieste. It will centralize...
Piraeus Port Authority signs new agreement with the Union of Supervisors & Foremen
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 27, 2022 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has signed a new three year Collective Labour Agreement with the Union of...
APM Terminals Algeciras opens earlier to ease truck queue
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – APM Terminals Algeciras has agreed to open the terminal in the time period 0200-0800 in order to relive...
New Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in Port of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – A new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been signed between Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) and the...
Port work agency formed in Port of Cagliari
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 17, 2022 – A new port work agency has been formed in Port of Cagliari. KALPOR.T. srl is officially...
Libya’s port of Marsa el-Brega under force majeure
Tripoli, Libya (PortSEurope) April 20, 2022 – Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has said it will implement force majeure...
Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) announces the successful completion of the Collective Labor Agreement
Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has announced the successful completion of the constructive dialogue with the Federation of Greek Port Employees (OMYLE) and...
New agreement between Malta Freeport Terminals and Malta Dockers Union to provide stability
Malta Freeport Terminals and the Malta Dockers Union have just signed an 11-year agreement that will provide stability for licensed port workers as well as for...
Container terminals of the Port of Valencia resume their ordinary activity March 31
This announcement is part of the Contingency Plan prepared by the Guarantee Mark that was established last week to alleviate the effects generated by the storm...
Port of Valencia establishes contingency plan to help ease congestion
València, Spain (PortSEurope) March 28, 2022 – The Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has established a contingency plan to help ease congestion at the...
Port of Bilbao reduces growth forecast
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) March 22, 2022 – The Port of Bilbao has reduced its growth forecast for 2022 from 7.4% to around 2%. The reasons are twofold....
Port of Algeciras faces a third day of the strike of road freight carriers without pickets and without trucks
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) March 16, 2022 – The Port of Algeciras faces the third day of the strike of road trucks – without pickets and...
ITF Dockers unite against Putin’s Ukraine invasion
Press release – International Transport Workers’ Federation – March 3, 2022 Following last week’s call from transport unions for an immediate...