Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
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...
Stevedores at Barcelona port refuse to handle military cargo
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2023 – A trade union organisation in the port of Barcelona has said its stevedore members will no longer...
Piraeus Port Authority signs new new Collective Labour Agreement
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) October 11, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has announced the completion of the discussions between the PPA Management...
MSC will maintain workers’ rights in Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) September 25, 2023 – Following a workers’ protest in Hamburg, MSC has said that it will maintain workers’...
Concerns over reduced cargo at Port of La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) July 16, 2023 – In the first four months of 2023, the port of La Spezia recorded a cargo reduction of -20% compared to the...
Port of Setubal and Angola’s IPM sign agreement
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) May 30, 2023 – APSS – Administration of the Ports of Setúbal and Sesimbra, SA, through the Academia Portuária de...
Thessaloniki Port Authority signs collective labour agreement
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 -uThe agreement regulates the terms of wages and working conditions of the company’s dockworkers’...
Port of Valencia workers receive reachstacker training in Germany
València, Spain (PortSEurope) February 23, 2023 – A delegation from the Port of València has visited the Hyster-Yale Group facilities in Weeze,...
Italian government concerned about port worker safety
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2023 – Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, has convened the Assoporti...
Piraeus Port Authority renews collective labour agreement
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) January 25, 2023 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has resigned the collective labour agreement for three years following...
Port of Monfalcone increases staff recruitment
Monfalcone, Italy (PortSEurope) December 23, 2022 – The North Adriatic Port of Monfalcone is recruiting new staff with 50 new workers sought. The process...
Port of Livorno, trade unions reach agreement
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 6, 2022 – The Port of Livorno and trade unions have reached an agreement to end a 10-day labour strike which has...
Port of Bilbao signs stevedore agreement
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) September 23, 2022 – The Port of Bilbao has signed a stevedore collective agreement with the relevant companies and trade...
Worker strikes start at ports of Livorno, Piombino & Elba
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) September 12, 2022 – Worker strikes have started at the ports of Livorno, Piombino & Elba following the collapse of...
Friuli Venezia Giulia to challenge Wartsila Trieste plant closure in court
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 5, 2022 – Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia is to challenge the plant closure planned by Wärtsilä. In July, the...
Wärtsilä to stop engine manufacturing in Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 26, 2022 – The Finnish company Wärtsilä will stop manufacturing 4-stroke engines in Trieste. It will centralize...
Piraeus Port Authority signs new agreement with the Union of Supervisors & Foremen
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) June 27, 2022 – Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) has signed a new three year Collective Labour Agreement with the Union of...
APM Terminals Algeciras opens earlier to ease truck queue
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – APM Terminals Algeciras has agreed to open the terminal in the time period 0200-0800 in order to relive...