Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Pasaia port benefits from strike at neighbouring Bilbao port
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 16, 2020 – The ongoing strike by stevedores at Bilbao port has driven shippers to seek alternative ports to collect...
Bilbao Port Authority and companies require stevedores to accept arbitration
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 11, 2020 – The Basque port of Bilbao has just started the second consecutive month of a stevedores’ strike...
Valencia port strike called off
València, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2020 – Labour unions representing stevedores have decided to call off the strike that was scheduled for...
Negotiations progress to resolve labour strike in Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2020 – At a meeting of the State Sectoral Joint Commission, the Coordinadora and UGT labour unions have proposed...
Valencian port faces labour strikes next week
València, Spain (PortSEurope) November 4, 2020 – The works council of Centro Portuario de Empleo de Valencia is calling for strike action at the port of...
Port of Bilbao strike is entrenched – companies ask the administration to act
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2020 – The stevedores strike at Bilbao port is set to continue as trade unions have called for the action to be...
Bilbao port strike sees no end in sight – cargo traffic falling
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) October 29, 2020 – The stevedoring strike in Bilbao port continues and is now in its third week. The first phase lasted from...
Port system of Genoa to receive €650,000 for labour costs
The Advisory Commission and the Management Committee have today approved the contributions to Compagnie Portuali di Genova e Savona both in relation to the...
Bilbao stevedoring companies request arbitration
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – The strike by the stevedoring workers at the port of Bilbao threatens to last for a month, having...
Venice port threatened by labour strike threat
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) September 28, 2020 – The trade unions of Cgil, Cisl, Uil of Venice are prepared for a 24-hour general strike next Wednesday...
Little progress at Taranto port talks
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) September 27, 2020 – A further meeting between trade unions and Yilport in Taranto port has failed to make any progress in...
BSM launches new Liquid Cargo Simulator Facility in Cyprus
Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), has launched a new Liquid Cargo training facility at its Maritime Training Centre in Cyprus – July 16, 2020 This,...
Rijeka port hosts PANDORA event
Rijeka, Croatia (Ports Europe) July 12, 2020 – Rijeka port has hosted the first partnership meeting of Promoting Excellence in Skills for the Labour...
Workers in Syria’s Tartus protest again Russia’s company management of the port
Tartus, Syria (Ports Europe) July 9, 2020 – Port workers in Tartus have again complained about their Russian employer irregular and lower than the agreed...
President of the Port Authority of Valencia meets with Secretary General of ANESCO
Aurelio Martínez (APV) and José Luis Romero (ANESCO) have addressed the current situation of the stowage sector and future challenges – July 8, 2020...
Piraeus Port Authority extends labour agreement negotiation period
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) June 28, 2020 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has announced that its has signed the extension of the validity of the...
Port State control regimes cooperate with IMO on crew changes and certificate renewals
Port State control (PSC) regimes have expressed their willingness to be part of the solution to the urgent issue of crew changes and repatriation of seafarers....
Statement on negotiations for new labour agreement at Piraeus Port Authority
Announcement regarding the negotiations for thenew Collective Labor Agreement of the Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA) – June 17, 2020 Following press...
Tunisian ports strike costs over €250,000
Tunis, Tunisia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – The strike observed by employees of Société tunisienne d’aconage et de manutention (STAM –...
Labour union files for strike at Radès port, Tunisia
Radès, Tunisia (Ports Europe) June 1, 2020 – Over six years ago, the Ministry of Transport set up a commission to examine problems facing the port of...