Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Court confirms fine on Vilagarcía port for environmental rules violation
Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The Pontevedra administrative court has confirmed the sanction imposed by the Galicia regional government...
Gioia Tauro port launches proceedings for termination of MCT concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port has communicated to the shareholders of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...
Italy to deliver formal notice to MCT for breaches in Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to shortly send a formal notice to Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...
Italian court dismisses appeal against Yilport’s concession at Taranto port
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – The Lecce administrative court has rejected the appeal presented by the South Gate Europe Terminal...
Barcelona port loses litigation against construction companies
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2019 – Barcelona port authority has lost the litigation against several construction companies for the sinking of...
Tirrenia dismisses monopoly accusations by government
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – Italian ferry company Tirrenia does not have a monopoly on the links to Sardinia, as four other companies...
Suez Canal settles dispute with Sewedy Group unit
Suez, Egypt (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – The Suez Canal Authority has settled a dispute with a subsidiary of Sewedy Group over the operation of a land...
Isia Global Service is unfit for carrying out port operations
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The Regional Administrative Court of Reggio Calabria has ruled that the company Isia Global...
Gijón port to appeal against cancellation of Enagás fine
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Gijón port is preparing to submit an appeal to the Supreme Court against a lower-instance ruling that annuls...
Veneto Regional Tax Commission rules in favour of Venezia Terminal Passeggeri regarding tax issue
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – The Veneto Regional Tax Commission confirmed the first instance decision in favour of Venezia Terminal...
Luka Koper loses lawsuit against Italy’s Xodo
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) December 6, 2018 – Luka Koper has lost a lawsuit against Italian company Costruzioni Generali Xodo Srl, which was hired to...
Italian court reinstates 30 workers of Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – An Italian court has reinstated 30 of the 377 workers of the port of Gioia Tauro who were fired in July...
Civitavecchia port container dispute suspended until June
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Francesco Maria di Majo, President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
Last two concessionaires set to leave the Marina del Canaletto, La Spezia port
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – The Marina del Canaletto Harbour Authority has sent Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...
Spain’s Iberconsa settles disagreement with Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) November 5, 2018 – Spanish company Iberconsa has settled its disagreement with Vigo port and will continue using its warehouse at...
Spain’s anti-trust regulator initiates probe into Algeciras port trade unions, associations
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 17, 2018 – Spain’s competition regulator La Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has...
European Commission finds Italy granted incompatible aid to Naples port authority but no aid involved in delayed collection of concession fees by port authority
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 European Commission, Press Release, Brussels, 20 September 2018 The European Commission has found that...