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Spain’s Ergransa to invest €500,000 in overhaul of warehouse at Barcelona port

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Spanish stevedoring company Ergransa, part of Holding M. Condeminas, has presented to the Barcelona port...

Trade union criticises working conditions at Santander port

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Spanish trade union Sindicato Cántabro Asalariados del Transporte (SCAT) has criticised the...

Bilbao port faces shortage of dockworkers

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Bilbao port is experiencing a situation that some operators call “catastrophic”. The lack...

Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...

Strikes have limited effect on Santander port’s car traffic 

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – The seven days of strikes that took place in June in the port of Santander during the conflict of stevedores...

Spain fined €3 million by European Court of Justice over stevedore sector

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The European Union’s Court of Justice has ordered Spain to pay a punitive fine of €3 million ($3.4...

Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...

Spanish ship consignment firms to set up association of companies outside ANESCO

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Spanish ship consignment sector has begun to work intensively in a short space of time to create a new...

Spanish docking strike had mixed implications – government offical

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The stowage strike carried out during three weeks last June was more harmful for some ports than for...

Puertos del Estado hopes for lowest possible fine for Spain

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that he hopes that the...

Spanish government to ensure dockworkers sector agreement is legal

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, has said that the government will ensure that the...

Social Dialogue Committee for Ports meeting does not take place

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – Last March 1, 2017, the Social Dialogue for Ports meeting in Brussels was interrupted after IDC and ETF...

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...

Spanish dockers cancel strike, reach agreement with employers

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Spanish trade unions of dockworkers and the representatives of Anesco have reached an agreement this morning...

Spanish government says docking sector situation is returning to normal

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Spanish State Secretary of Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has said that the...

European dock workers set to strike June 29

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has called a Europe-wide port stoppage in support of the...

Spanish stevedores cancel strikes on June 29

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Spanish stevedores have just issued a statement announcing that they will hold a meeting with union Asociación...

Spanish ports’ labour dispute suspended

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The labour dispute has taken a breather after trade unions suspended three of the nine days of the strike...

EU Court of Justice to announce second sentence against Spain on July 13

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said it plans to announce the second sentence against Spain...

Spain’s Ership abandons Anesco

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2017 – The president of Spanish shipping company Grupo Ership S.A., Juan Alvargonzález Figaredo, said the firm has...

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