Labour
All issues linked to staff/workers employment. The hiring of employees, redundancies and labour strikes.
New Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in Port of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) June 1, 2022 – A new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been signed between Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT) and the...
Port work agency formed in Port of Cagliari
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) May 17, 2022 – A new port work agency has been formed in Port of Cagliari. KALPOR.T. srl is officially...
Libya’s port of Marsa el-Brega under force majeure
Tripoli, Libya (PortSEurope) April 20, 2022 – Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has said it will implement force majeure...
Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) announces the successful completion of the Collective Labor Agreement
Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has announced the successful completion of the constructive dialogue with the Federation of Greek Port Employees (OMYLE) and...
New agreement between Malta Freeport Terminals and Malta Dockers Union to provide stability
Malta Freeport Terminals and the Malta Dockers Union have just signed an 11-year agreement that will provide stability for licensed port workers as well as for...
Container terminals of the Port of Valencia resume their ordinary activity March 31
This announcement is part of the Contingency Plan prepared by the Guarantee Mark that was established last week to alleviate the effects generated by the storm...
Port of Valencia establishes contingency plan to help ease congestion
València, Spain (PortSEurope) March 28, 2022 – The Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has established a contingency plan to help ease congestion at the...
Port of Bilbao reduces growth forecast
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) March 22, 2022 – The Port of Bilbao has reduced its growth forecast for 2022 from 7.4% to around 2%. The reasons are twofold....
Port of Algeciras faces a third day of the strike of road freight carriers without pickets and without trucks
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) March 16, 2022 – The Port of Algeciras faces the third day of the strike of road trucks – without pickets and...
ITF Dockers unite against Putin’s Ukraine invasion
Press release – International Transport Workers’ Federation – March 3, 2022 Following last week’s call from transport unions for an immediate...
Adriatic Gate Container Terminal reports on growth and increased employment
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) March 15, 2022 – Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT) has reported strong growth in the first two months of 2022 and...
Agency formed to support workers in transhipment in the Port of Cagliari
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 4, 2022 – The port authority covering the port of Cagliari has established K.A.L.POR.T. S.R.L. (Karalis...
Ports of Limassol and Larnaca set for labour strikes
Limassol, Cyprus (Ports Europe) February 18, 2022 – An offer regarding renewal of collective agreements from the Ministry of Labour for workers at the...
BAT start process to hire staff in new Port of Trieste facility
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2022 – Last September, British American Tobacco (BAT) announced plans to invest around €500 million to...
Workers at COSCO’s Piraeus Port Authority strike for 24 hours
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 9, 2022 – Members of the Union of Container Workers carried out a strike for 24 hours on February 7. The workers...
Unions concerned about future TEU volumes at Port of Taranto
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 25, 2022 – The Southern Italian Port of Taranto has benefitted so far this year from over-capacity at Malta...
Yilport’s San Cataldo Container Terminal in Taranto port hires workers
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2022 – In a positive start to 2022, the San Cataldo Container Terminal (SCCT) in the Port of Taranto has hired...
PSA Genova Pra’ to introduce container surcharge
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – Many ports globally are being blocked by the increasing number of containers (TEU) stored at their...
Comet srl workers plan strike at Port of Messina
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) January 4, 2022 – The Uiltrasporti trade union has proposed that workers of Comet srl, a concessionaire at the port of...
EU to support former workers at Cagliari container terminal
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – The European Parliament has approved the disbursement of around €1.49 million ($1.68...