Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
ANESCO calls for reduction of port fees in Spain
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 6, 2019 – Spain’s Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of...
Valenciaport Foundation trains ports managers from Brazil and Angola
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2019 – Valenciaport Foundation has trained 22 Brazilian and Angolan managers of ports and private companies...
Gioia Tauro port workers end blockade as MSC guarantees investments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Workers at Gioia Tauro port have removed the blockade of the harbour they launched on February 13...
Koper port’s tender for external hiring contractor fails
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Koper port has selected no offers for a public contract for an external company hiring workers at the...
Barcelona port closes 2018 with 534 employees
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Barcelona port has consolidated its average workforce above half a thousand people. After closing a...
Spain’s stowage reform marks most disputed trade union elections in recent years
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Spain’s reform of the stowage sector, which put workers and companies on the warpath due...
New Malta Freeport collective agreement will lead to improved efficiency
Freeport, Malta (Ports Europe) February 9, 2019 – Malta Freeport Terminals has signed a new collective agreement with the General Workers’ Union for...
Friuli Venezia Giulia region to support port sector’s labour market
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 3, 2019 – Friuli Venezia Giulia will become the first region in Italy to support the local port authority in...
Livorno port management analyses labour situation
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Settentrionale (AdSP – North Tyrrhenian Sea Port...
AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) introduces safety training
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...
Portuguese stevedores launch strike at Praia da Vitória port
Praia da Vitória, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 16, 2019 – Portuguese stevedores trade union Sindicato dos Estivadores e da Atividade Logística (SEAL)...
Limassol port workers to strike January 16
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – Limassol port’s workers plan to stage a 24-hour strike on January 16 to protest against the process...
Setúbal port strike reduces national November exports
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – Portugal’s Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE – National Statistical Institute) has...
Negotiations of collective agreement with Setúbal port dockworkers resumed
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 10, 2019 – Negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement for the dockworkers at Setúbal port were resumed...
Genoa port guarantees salaries of dockworkers
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2019 – Genoa port’s management has guaranteed the payment of salaries to the employees of dockworkers’...
Trade unions express concerns over future of Livorno port
Livorno, Italy (PortSEurope) January 7, 2019 – Trade unions active at Livorno port have expressed their joint concern about the future development of Livorno...
Portuguese dockworkers’ strike may cause damage to paper companies
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 3, 2019 – The strike of dockworkers in Portugal is expected to have a negative impact on the export of paper mills...