Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Spanish competition watchdog okays purchase of Trasmediterránea by Naviera Armas
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – Spanish competition regulator has authorised in the first phase of objections to the purchase of...
Balearic port authority accuses concessionaire of intimidation
La Savina, Formentera, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – The Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Balears – APB) has reported to...
Sardinian port dispute finally settled
Cagliari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 22, 2018 – The presidents of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Di Sardegna (AdSP – Sardinian Sea Port...
Ukraine and IMO sign audit agreement
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) May 22, 2018 – Ukraine and International Maritime Organization (IMO) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for the...
Ceuta port president resigns
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 11, 2018 – The president of Ceuta port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ceuta), José Torrado, has announced his resignation...
Ceuta court opens trial against port president on alleged embezzlement
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2018 – The head of the Court of First of Ceuta has issued an order to open the trial of president of the port authority,...
France detains Bolloré on accusations of bribing African officials to get port concessions
Nanterre, France (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – Vincent Bolloré, the chairman and CEO of the investment group Bolloré, was detained in Nanterre, on the...
Las Palmas port violates Spain’s gender equality law
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) and the Consortium of the Free Trade Zone...
Galician court rules in favour of Vigo port in dispute with Audasa
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Vigo port won the first phase of the litigation undertaken by Spanish toll-road operator Audasa against the...
Puertos del Estado appeals against sentence of National Court
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado plans to appeal against the sentence of the National Court...
Thessaloniki Port Authority – Decisions of the Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting of 25.01.2018
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) January 29, 2018 – Following an Extraordinary General Shareholders Meeting of January 25, 2018, Thessaloniki Port...
EDT claims €150 million in compensation due to privatization
Limassol, Cyprus (PortSEurope) January 21, 2018 – EDT Offshore Ltd, an oil and gas services company operating out of Limassol port, is suing the Cypriot...
Noatum Maritime Services moves corporate address from Barcelona to Madrid
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 14, 2018 – Noatum Maritime Services has moved its corporate address from Barcelona to Coslada, Madrid, Noatum is...
Duferco, DP Consulting file appeal against Venice port authority decision
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) January 10, 2018 – Italian companies Duferco Italia Holding S.p.A. and DP Consulting s.r.l. have filed an appeal with the Veneto...
Spain’s Transcoma changes name of bunkering division
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Spanish company Transcoma Shipping has said it has spun off its bunkering division and changing its name to...
Port of Trieste Servizi – Public Consultation for the update of the Triennial Corruption Prevention Plan
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) January 8, 2018 – Porto di Trieste Servizi S.p.A. (Port of Trieste Servizi S.p.A. – PTS) has to approve, by January...
EU rules that Greece should recover state aid from Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Greece’s appeal against the European Commission, the EU Court, for Piraeus Port Authority...