Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Court rules in support of companies linked to a Contship tender in La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 28, 2024 – The TAR (regional court) has intervened in the controversial 90 million euro tender for the Ravano...
Council of State rules against Spinelli in Genoa
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 22, 2024 – The Council of State has ruled that the Spinelli group will not be able to receive container ships at the...
Rix calls for solution to GPT Terminal concession, Genoa
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 17, 2024 – “Following the decision of the Council of State on the Genoa port terminal, I have asked the Western...
Antwerp and Rotterdam fight the “PIN code fraud”
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) October 16, 2024 – Europe’s two largest container ports – Netherlands’ Rotterdam and Belgium’s Antwerp...
Two tonnes of illegal ice cream destroyed in Port of Livorno
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 8, 2024 – The Customs and Monopolies Agency and the Guardia di Finanza have seized more than two tonnes of ice...
Port of Naples’ terminal operators to be sanctioned
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – The terminal operators Conateco and Soteco, jointly with the parent company Marinvest, and the Terminal...
Kanal Istanbul faces legal setback
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 5, 2024 – The zoning plan for a section of the planned Kanal Istanbul project is not in accordance with the law,...
Port of Piraeus receives permission to continue dredging
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – The Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece, has ruled that dredging of the port of...
Update: €1 bln tunnel under Genoa port, former president under investigation
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 22, 2024 – In March, construction started of a 3.4-kilometre long, 1 billion euro tunnel, 45 m under the water that will...
Fiat Topolino arriving at the port of Livorno seized
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) May 20, 2024 – The Customs Agency and the Financial Police has seized 134 examples of the electric Fiat Topolino microcar...
Corruption charges set to end Vado regasification terminal project
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 13, 2024 – Last Tuesday, Giovanni Toti, the centre-right governor of Italy’s northwest Liguria region, was placed...
Court of Accounts criticises Port of Constanta management
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) May 7, 2024 – The Romanian Court of Accounts’ has produced a highly critical report on the Port of Constanta...
Tarragona City Council initiates action against Ership and Noatum
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – The Ajuntament de Tarragona (Tarragona Town Council) has initiated a series of actions against Ership...
Appeal against port LNG project not supported by Brindisi province
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) April 22, 2024 – Brindisi province will not legally support the port industrial zone operator ASI in a lawsuit against an...
EMS Shipping & Trading claim against Albania proceeds
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – An ICSID tribunal has refused to separately hear Albania’s preliminary objections to a claim brought...
Grain operators in Constanta port receive fines
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024 – The Constanța Environmental Guard has fined 15,000 lei each to four grain operators operating in...
River access channel to Port 2000 gets green light
Rouen, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – On March 29, the Administrative Court of Rouen rejected an application to suspend work on the river access...
Eni Versalis ends dispute in Brindisi
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2024 – Eni Versalis has withdrawn its appeal against the landfill project in the Costa Morena area in the port...
Anti-corruption authority challenges Genoa port breakwater process
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe)- March 27, 2024 – Italy’s anti-corruption authority (ANAC) has challenged the procedures for awarding the Genoa...
Local court rejects Grimaldi entry into Port of Ravenna
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2024 – The Bologna Regional Administrative Court has rejected an initial request by Sapir to suspend the award of...