Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Court dismisses appeal by Acciona on Ferrol port railway construction deal
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2017 – The Spanish Administrative Court dismissed the appeal of the consortium of companies Acciona Construction S.A....
Bar port trade unions to seek termination of Port of Adria concession contract
Bar, Montenegro (PortSEurope) April 27, 2017 – The trade union of Bar port workers said it plans to apply for the termination of the contract of...
Eurogate fined €40k by Cyprus Ports Authority
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) March 15, 2017 – The Cyprus Ports Authority has fined Limassol Port container terminal operator Eurogate €40,000...
Controversy at Limassol port continues
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) March 5, 2017 – On January 29, 2017, Dubai’s DP World assumed management of Limassol port as part of the...
Bulgarian competition regulator cancels Vidin port concession
Vidin, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 28, 2017 – Bulgarian competition authority has cancelled a 35-year concession of the South Container Terminal at...
Police suspend dredging at La Spezia port
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) February 27, 2017 – Italian Police and the La Spezia harbourmaster have again suspended dredging at Molo Fornelli dock at...
Court dismisses appeal by OHL against Santander port contract
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2017 – The Spanish contractual disputes court has dismissed the appeal of the consortium of companies...
Spanish Minister rejects trade union proposals for stowage sector reform
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2017 – In the midst of a trade union mobilisation against the Spanish government’s proposal for the...
Barcelona port president denies corruption accusations
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 3, 2017 – The president of Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona), Sixte Cambra, has denied...
Supreme Court dismisses accusations against former Valencia port president
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 27, 2017 – Spanish Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of Valencia Provincial Court, which not to prosecute for...
Liguria court requests compensation from former Genoa port president
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 26, 2017 – The prosecutor of the Court of Auditors of Liguria has demanded compensation of €88,000 ($93,960) from...
Palau International Ship Registry opens Piraeus office
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Houston-based Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) has announced it will open an office the Greek...
Court orders Genoa port to change way of granting access to dry docks
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Genoa port authority will have to reconsider the access of operators to dry docks. This was ruled by the...
Marmedsa Noatum Maritime joins anti-corruption association MACN
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Spanish port services company Marmedsa Noatum Maritime has been accepted as a member of the Maritime...
Italian police investigate vehicle imports to jihadist cells via Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Italian Finance Police has started investigations into a possible channel for the import of vehicles to...
Liguria Court dismisses appeals against La Spezia infrastructure projects
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Liguria region’s Administrative Court has considered “unfounded” the request by...