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Civitavecchia port signs labour agreement

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 17, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...

Galician ports see labour shortage in shipyards

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – In the last 10 years, Galician shipyards have signed orders for around 30 vessels at a value of around €1.2...

Vigo port to host FAO training against illegal fishing

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – The United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO) is to use Vigo port as the location for regional...

Spain’s Transfesa agrees payroll increase in 2018, 2019

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 14, 2018 – Spanish logistics and freight transport company Transfesa (Transportes Ferroviarios Especiales SA) and trade...

Sicily port workers plan Palermo protest

Palermo, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The port workers of Sicily plan to protest today, in front of the Palermo offices of Autorita’ di Sistema...

Spain’s Anesco wishes to participate in development of port business plans

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Spanish employer organisation of the stowage sector Anesco (Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras) has...

Venice port authority signs research study with Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Venice, 6 June – The maritime-port culture is to become the theme of study and research in Venice,...

Augusta and Catania ports face labour disruptions

Catania, Sicily, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – The provincial secretariats of Syracuse and Catania of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have...

Portuguese port strike cancelled

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 5, 2018 – Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has negotiated an end to the planned strike by port workers....

Workers at Chernomorsk port protest against Hutchison Ports concession

Chernomorsk, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 4, 2018 – Employees of Chernomorsk port have protested against the transfer of the port to Hong Hong-based...

Piraeus port reported back to normal after strike action

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 3, 2018 – A Greek court has ruled that strike action at Piraeus port was illegal and the action has ended. The strike...

AdSP del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (Civitavecchia port) signs labour agreement

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – The president of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP –...

Port of Lisbon dockers begin two-week overtime strike

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 24, 2018 – Dock workers at the port of Lisbon have started a two-week overtime strike, the Stevedore and Logistics...

Spanish government, trade unions extend stowage sector agreement deadline

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 16, 2018 – Spain’s government and stevedoring trade unions agreed to extend the deadline for negotiating the new...

Portuguese ports maritime trade union calls for strike action June 4-8

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 – The National Union of Workers of the Administrations and Port Boards (SNTAJP – Sindicato Nacional...

Unions call for day of action at Italian ports

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) May 13, 2018 – The Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti trade unions called for a national strike on May 11, 2018, of...

Minister of Development and Housing López calls for momentum in developing transport corridors

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2018 – The Minister of Development and Housing, Felipe López, has described as “key to the momentum of the...

AdSP del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (Bari) signs local labour pact

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Meridionale (AdSP – Southern Adriatic Sea Port...

Portuguese Minister of the Sea meets trade unions

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, met yesterday, with members of the General Workers Union...

Civitavecchia port inquires about labour contracts of ship serving line to Livorno, Olbia

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – Civitavecchia port has turned to the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) to inquire about the...

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