Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Port of Marseille strike ends
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 10, 2024 – The strike that started on July 2 by maritime traffic controllers ended on July 5. Another labour action...
Hamburg port workers start strike action
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) July 9, 2024 – Workers at the Port of Hamburg have started a two-day strike on Tuesday to demand higher wages. Strike...
Workers support move to MSC from Wartsila in Trieste port
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 9, 2024 – Most workers at the Wartsila plant in Trieste support a move to MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A....
Many port workers join strikes – Uiltrasporti
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – Uiltrasporti, the trade union representing port workers, has claimed that the participation in strikes by...
Sicilian Port of Milazzo short of work
Milazzo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) July 5, 2024 – The Sicilian Port of Milazzo is seeing decreased employment and there is a sense of a lack of...
Strikes at Italian ports
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) July 4, 2024 – There have been several strikes at Italian ports. This is a response to the failure of talks to renew the...
Strike action hits Port of Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 3, 2024 – Yesterday, strike action started at the Port of Marseille. It is organised by Force Ouvrière...
Italian ports trade unions plan 48-hour strike on July 4-5
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) June 21, 2024 – The trade unions Filt Cgil and Fit Cisl are planning strike action at Italian ports because of a lack of...
French unions suspend strike action at ports
Paris, France (Ports Europe) June 12, 2024 – The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) has suspended planned strike action against the...
Hamburg Parliament to vote on HHLA – June 26
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – There remains significant opposition to MSC taking a 49.)% stake in Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG...
Ver.di calls for strike action today in Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 7, 2024 – The Ver.di trade union has called for a strike today in the Port of Hamburg. It says that the second round...
The NeXTraIn.PortS project launched in Livorno
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe)- April 26, 2024 – The European Union project NeXTraIn.PortS has been launched in the Port of Livorno. The project’s...
Taranto port unions seek urgent meeting with the Ministry of Transport
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024—Taranto port trade unions Filt CGIL, Fit CISL and Uiltrasporti UIL have sent a formal request for a meeting with...
France 2030: 13 winning projects for the maritime industrial sector
News Release – Secrétariat d’État chargé de la Mer et de la Biodiversité – March 29, 2024 Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecological...
European Dockers protest in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) April 4, 2024 – Over 100 dockers from various European ports protested yesterday in front of the European Parliament in...
Port System of Western Sicily signs deal with Escola Europea
Palermo, Sicily, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2024 – An agreement has been signed between the Port Authority of the Western Sicilian Sea and Escola...
MSC presents terms to take over Wartsila facility, Trieste
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) March 29, 2024 – Last month, MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. announced its interest in taking over the plant in...
Unionized port workers plan strike across Italy April 3-5
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2024 – The trade union Fit-Cisl has said that negotiations for renewing the sector’s national collective...
Van Oord to remain based in the Netherlands
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) March 27, 2024 – Dredging company Van Oord has said that it will remain based in the Netherlands, however, further...
Farmers block Port of Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2024 – A number of agricultural organisations have organised a protest in Algeciras, Southern Spain. The...