Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
Algeciras port dockworkers’ company names president
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – The dockworkers’ company of Algeciras port has appointed Javier Sáez González as president....
Genoa port meets with trade unions
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 –Â During the meeting with Segreterie Confederali CGIL – CISL – UIL (trade unions) held October 6...
Grimaldi Group to hire a further 500 staffers
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 –Â As part of a fleet upgrade, the Grimaldi Group has recently begun the process of selecting and recruiting...
Barcelona port closed on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Barcelona port remained practically closed on October 3, with no trucks moving and the doors of its...
Dockworkers block Catalan ports on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Catalan stevedores have agreed this afternoon to join the general strike called on October 3 in Catalonia....
International dockworkers support colleagues in Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – International stevedores have expressed support for their colleagues in Catalonia after the Barcelona...
Barcelona stevedores refuse to handle government chartered vessel in port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Dockworkers at the port of Barcelona have refused to operate a cruise ship allegedly hired by the...
Puertos del Estado president says docking labour contract should meet rules
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca Ortega has warned trade...
Taranto Port Workers Agency set up to support workforce
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – Taranto Port Workers Agency Srl has been established at the port to support port employment and...
Valencia port to start talks with dockworkers by the end of next week
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to start talks on the Fifth Framework...
Former employees of MCT block Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – Employees of Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), Contship Italia Group’s flagship hub in the...
Vigo port president says harbour resists to stowage, BIP problems
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The president of Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo), Enrique López Veiga, has presented...
Friuli Venezia Giulia and Fincantieri to create cruise industry academy
Monfalcone, Italy (Ports Europe) September 1, 2017 – The region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Fincantieri S.p.A. plan to sign a Memorandum of...
Castellón port secures enough workers to keep up cargo traffic growth
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Castellón port has secured the workforce size that will allow it to continue expanding cargo traffic. In...
Piraeus Port Authority announces new labour force regulations
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 –Â Piraeus Port Authority SA has announced that after negotiations with the employees’...
Shipping agents warn against elimination of customs’ night shift at Thessaloniki port
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – The Association of Shipping Agents of Thessaloniki has expressed its concern with the decision of...
Greece’s Thessaloniki port can face problems with customs service
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Thessaloniki port can face problems with the delivery of customs service, as the Greek association of...
Cartagena Polytechnic University, port sign RDI cooperation deal
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – The Cartagena Polytechnic University (UPCT) and Cartagena port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena)...
Marco Polo Foundation trains future port employees in sustainable mobility
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 –Â Fondazione ITS Marco Polo (The Marco Polo Foundation) aims to train future experts in the field of...
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...