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Spain’s stowage reform marks most disputed trade union elections in recent years

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Spain’s reform of the stowage sector, which put workers and companies on the warpath due...

ANESCO is committed to “increasing the competitiveness of ports” by improving its management model

Madrid, February 7, 2019 The executive committee of the National Association of Stevedoring Companies has met today in Madrid and has analyzed different...

Valencia port opens two hours ahead of schedule despite stevedores’ assembly

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The paralysis of Valencia port by a gathering of stevedores on February 7 has turned out to be less longer...

Spain’s SLP records 4% rise in cargo traffic at Bilbao port

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2019 – Servicios Logísticos Portuarios, S.A. (SLP), a stevedoring company based in the port of Bilbao, closed 2018...

ANESCO urges Adif to restore rail traffic to Algeciras port

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2019 – Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring...

Taganrog Sea Commercial Port reports increased investment in environment management

Taganrog, Russia (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – In January-September 2018, Taganrog Sea Commercial Port (TagSCP) invested $67,300 in its...

Spain’s Anesco warns against negative effects on stowage sector of social contributions rise

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2018 – Spanish stowage employer union Anesco (Asociación de Empresas Estibadoras/National Association of...

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...

General Stevedoring Council visits Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – A group of managers of different stevedoring companies belonging to the General Stevedoring Council...

Yilport comments on ports workers strike

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 16, 2018 – Yilport, the Turkish port operator, which has Portuguese interests, has said that the port workers...

Algeciras port completes stevedoring liberalisation

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) September 14, 2018 – Algeciras port has completed its adoptation to the reform of the stowage sector approved last year to...

Las Palmas stevedores agree to reduce stowage costs by 10%

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2018 – The four stevedoring companies that make up the Stowage Society of Las Palmas (Sagep) have reached an...

Vigo port may benefit from Lisbon stevedores strike

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 12, 2018 – The month-long stevedores’ strike initiated this week in Lisbon could lead to traffic avoiding the...

Spain’s SLP expects EBITDA to rise by 50% in 2018

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 10, 2018 – Spain’s Servicios Logísticos Portuarios (SLP) expects its earnings before interest, taxes,...

ANESCO presents its proposals to the president of Puertos del Estado to improve the port system

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2018 – A delegation of ANESCO (Asociación de Empresas Estibadoras/National Association of Stevedoring...

Portuguese dockworkers to carry out strike in Sept, Oct

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 30, 2018 – Portuguese dockworkers plan to carry out a strike that will cover the port and stowage companies of the...

Sines port unaffected by Portuguese port labour action

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 20, 2018 – APS – Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve, S. A. has reported that current strike by...

Portugal’s Irmãos Cavaco delays payment of compensation to former workers

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 16, 2018 – Portuguese construction company Irmãos Cavaco SA, declared insolvent in 2017, said it was late in...

Minimum service maintained in Portuguese port strike

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Minimum service is operating at Portuguese ports during the labour strike organised for August 13 to...

Gioia Tauro port employees to strike on Aug 14, 15, 16

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port’s trade unions committee has confirmed the strike of the employees of...

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