Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
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...
Apulian ports, banks to cooperate in developing free trade zones
Bari, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2018 – Italy’s Apulia port authority, Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP...
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...
Piraeus port workers’ strike over a pay dispute likely to continue
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 12, 2018 – Recent strikes at Piraeus port by workers over a pay dispute are likely to continue. The complaint is...
Global Ports Holding – Legal proceeedings – Port of Adria-Bar
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) September 9, 2018 On August 17, 2018, Turkey’s Global Ports Holding, one of the leading port operators in the...
Feasibility study of Olvia and Kherson ports presented to labour unions and local authorities
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) September 6, 2018 – Pilot concession projects in Ukrainian ports are feasible and economically feasible – this...
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...
Cartagena port introduces own code of conduct
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Cartagena port has introduced its own code of ethics and conduct, in order to regulate ethical practices...
Greek customs association says reduction of working time of Thessaloniki port’s office is justified
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Greece’s association of customs agents OTYE has said the reaction of operators following the...
Croatia’s Uljanik shipyard employees launch strike
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Croatian shipbuilding group Uljanik’s employees started a strike on August 22, due to the delay of the...
Huelva port’s infrastructure works generate 990 jobs in H1 2018
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – The number of companies active in the port of Huelva, directly or indirectly, amounted to 106 in the first...
Association says Thessaloniki port’s competitors will benefit from customs working time limit
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Thessaloniki shipping agents association has officially criticised the decision of the local...
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...
Greek companies to oppose limit to customs working hours at Thessaloniki port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 20, 2018 – Companies active at Greece’s Thessaloniki port have criticised the decision of the...
Agreement between AdSP La Spezia, Porto di Carrara SpA and Dario Perioli SpA: no redundancies
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – On the evening of July 27, an agreement was reached between Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar...
Tarragona port to invest €1.7 million in building construction
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2018 – Tarragona port plans to invest €1.7 million ($1.9 million) in the construction of a building for...
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...