Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Kavala Port Authority informs tax office of debt
Kavala, Greece (PortSEurope) November 6, 2017 – The Board of the Kavala Port Authority (OLK S.A.) has decided to inform the tax office of the...
Spanish competition watchdog launches probe into docking companies, trade unions
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Spanish competition regulator Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched...
Local citizens challenge superyacht plan for Sète port
Sète, France (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – On October 10, 2017, a citizen collective was formed to collect as much information as possible about the...
Venezia Terminal Passeggeri cleared of ICI tax charge
Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) October 29, 2017 – With a judgment published on 3 October, Venezia Terminal Passeggeri SpA, assisted by GBA’s law and...
Court orders Trieste port to pay €645,000 compensation
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Trieste-based court has imposed a fine of €645,000 ($760,788) to Trieste port to compensate the family of a...
Balearic port authority launches probe into Solvalgaray
Savina, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has launched a probe into Spanish company...
Luka Koper responds to parliamentary motion
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Luka Koper, d.d., the company that operates the port of Koper has announced the following statement to...
Luka Koper receives lawsuit from Slovenian Railways
Koper, Slovenia (Ports Europe) August 19, 2017 – Luka Koper, d.d., the operator of Koper port, has received a lawsuit from SŽ – Tovorni promet d.o.o....
Alicante port complains against deadline for anti-pollution infrastructure installation
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Alicante port has filed a complaint with the Valencia regional Environment Council that it has until the...
Ukraine prepares lawsuit against Russia over losses in port sector
Kiev, Ukraine (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – Ukraine is preparing a lawsuit against Russia, which imposed restrictions on shipping through the Kerch-Yenikal...
Barcelona court orders Gas Natural-Fenosa to pay tax for port plant
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – A Barcelona court has ordered Spanish company Gas Natural-Fenosa to pay €13.78 million ($16.31 million) to...
Court dismisses appeal against Vado Ligure port platform
Vado Ligure, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Italian administration court has dismissed the appeal of environmentalist association Italia Nostra against...
Slovenia’s Luka Koper to pay compensation to former CEO
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – A Slovenian court has ordered port operator Luka Koper d.d. to pay a €130,000 ($149,100) compensation to...
Bergé, ArcelorMittal request €67.8 million compensation from Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Spanish automotive company Bergé and Luxembourg-based steel giant ArcelorMittal are requesting a €67.8...
A.P. Moller-Maersk reports recovery from cyber attack
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – A.P. Moller-Maersk has said that it expects to return to a close to normal environment by July 3. Progress...
APM Terminals restarts operation of terminals in Barcelona, Algeciras
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – APM Terminals has restarted operations at its terminals in Barcelona and Algeciras after closing them for two...
Luka Koper publishes reply to SDH
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – Pursuant to the Rules and Regulations of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange and the relevant legislation, the...