Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
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...
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...
Spanish trade union signs working conditions deal with Algeciras port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 13, 2018 – Spanish trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores de los Puertos (CETP) has reached an agreement...
Trade union FNSTPÂ says stevedores strike has limited effect on Portuguese ports
Lisbon, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – The National Federation of Port Workers’ Unions (FNSTP) today assured that the “national...
Portuguese stevedores to carry out 24-hour strike at eight ports
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 26, 2018 – The workers of eight Portuguese ports, affiliated with the Stevedoring and Logistics Activity Union (SEAL),...
Italy’s Moby, Tirrenia merger not to lead to workforce downsizing
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – The merger of Italian ferry companies Moby and Tirrenia will not lead to any negative effects on the number of...
Portuguese port operators cancel salary increase of dockers
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – The Association of operators in the port of Lisbon declared the agreement concluded with the stevedores union...
Portuguese stevedores to strike on July 27
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – Portuguese dockers have called a 24-hour strike from July 27 at the ports of Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines,...
AdSP Augusta employees plan to strike July 20
Augusta, Italy (Ports Europe) July 15, 2018 – A new strike by employees of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP –...