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Bilbao port faces shortage of dockworkers

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Bilbao port is experiencing a situation that some operators call “catastrophic”. The lack...

Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...

Valencia port generates 36,978 jobs

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July26, 2017 – The economic impact of Valenciaport reached €2,352 million ($2,736 million) in 2015. This figure is...

Strikes have limited effect on Santander port’s car traffic 

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – The seven days of strikes that took place in June in the port of Santander during the conflict of stevedores...

Piraeus Port Authority set for new labour agreement

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA SA) is set to agree a new general labour code with local unions who...

Ravenna port signs framework agreement to improve job safety

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Ravenna prefecture has signed a framework agreement for ensuring the safety of workers at Ravenna port. The...

Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...

Leixões port operates normally despite dockworkers’ strike

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Leixões port authority (Administração do Porto de Leixões ) has assured that it is operating...

Tenerife port trade unions accuse harbour president of pressuring workers

Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – The trade unions committee of Tenerife port have accused the president of the harbour, José Rafal Díaz of...

Spanish ship consignment firms to set up association of companies outside ANESCO

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Spanish ship consignment sector has begun to work intensively in a short space of time to create a new...

Spanish docking strike had mixed implications – government offical

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The stowage strike carried out during three weeks last June was more harmful for some ports than for...

Puertos del Estado hopes for lowest possible fine for Spain

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that he hopes that the...

Algeciras port generates 28,000 jobs

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Algeciras port generates more than 28,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs and €2.010 billion ($2.291...

Spanish government to ensure dockworkers sector agreement is legal

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, has said that the government will ensure that the...

Barcelona port promotes dual education 

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Barcelona port is carrying out a plan to promote the dual education in the port area with two main objectives:...

Social Dialogue Committee for Ports meeting does not take place

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – Last March 1, 2017, the Social Dialogue for Ports meeting in Brussels was interrupted after IDC and ETF...

Spanish dockers cancel strike, reach agreement with employers

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Spanish trade unions of dockworkers and the representatives of Anesco have reached an agreement this morning...

Spanish government says docking sector situation is returning to normal

Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Spanish State Secretary of Infrastructure, Transport and Housing, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has said that the...

European dock workers set to strike June 29

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) has called a Europe-wide port stoppage in support of the...

Spanish stevedores cancel strikes on June 29

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Spanish stevedores have just issued a statement announcing that they will hold a meeting with union Asociación...

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