Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Romania to end local joint venture with Dutch shipbuilder Damen
Bucharest, Romania (Ports Europe) December 5, 2024 – The local state-owned shipbuilder Santierul Naval 2 Mai Mangalia has agreed to terminate its...
Court supports asphalt bitumen terminal in Alicante port
Alicante, Spain (Ports Europe) November 29, 2024 – In 2022, the Port Authority of Alicante awarded a concession to Ditecpesa SA for an asphalt bitumen...
Port of Syracuse official joins AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Orientale
Siracuse, Italy (Ports Europe) November 28, 2024 – Porto Grande di Siracusa has officially become part of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di...
Restructuring plan for Vittoria shipyard approved by Court of Rovigo
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) November 22, 2024 – The restructuring plan for the Vittoria shipyard has been approved by the Court of Rovigo. “The...
Monopolies commission investigates SAS & Moby
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – Yesterday, the Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) opened an investigation into SAS, part of MSC...
Court rules in support of companies linked to a Contship tender in La Spezia
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) October 28, 2024 – The TAR (regional court) has intervened in the controversial 90 million euro tender for the Ravano...
Council of State rules against Spinelli in Genoa
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 22, 2024 – The Council of State has ruled that the Spinelli group will not be able to receive container ships at the...
Rix calls for solution to GPT Terminal concession, Genoa
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 17, 2024 – “Following the decision of the Council of State on the Genoa port terminal, I have asked the Western...
Antwerp and Rotterdam fight the “PIN code fraud”
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) October 16, 2024 – Europe’s two largest container ports – Netherlands’ Rotterdam and Belgium’s Antwerp...
Two tonnes of illegal ice cream destroyed in Port of Livorno
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) October 8, 2024 – The Customs and Monopolies Agency and the Guardia di Finanza have seized more than two tonnes of ice...
Port of Naples’ terminal operators to be sanctioned
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) August 7, 2024 – The terminal operators Conateco and Soteco, jointly with the parent company Marinvest, and the Terminal...
Kanal Istanbul faces legal setback
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) July 5, 2024 – The zoning plan for a section of the planned Kanal Istanbul project is not in accordance with the law,...
Port of Piraeus receives permission to continue dredging
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – The Council of State, the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece, has ruled that dredging of the port of...
Update: €1 bln tunnel under Genoa port, former president under investigation
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 22, 2024 – In March, construction started of a 3.4-kilometre long, 1 billion euro tunnel, 45 m under the water that will...
Fiat Topolino arriving at the port of Livorno seized
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) May 20, 2024 – The Customs Agency and the Financial Police has seized 134 examples of the electric Fiat Topolino microcar...
Corruption charges set to end Vado regasification terminal project
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 13, 2024 – Last Tuesday, Giovanni Toti, the centre-right governor of Italy’s northwest Liguria region, was placed...
Court of Accounts criticises Port of Constanta management
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) May 7, 2024 – The Romanian Court of Accounts’ has produced a highly critical report on the Port of Constanta...
Tarragona City Council initiates action against Ership and Noatum
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 26, 2024 – The Ajuntament de Tarragona (Tarragona Town Council) has initiated a series of actions against Ership...
Appeal against port LNG project not supported by Brindisi province
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) April 22, 2024 – Brindisi province will not legally support the port industrial zone operator ASI in a lawsuit against an...
EMS Shipping & Trading claim against Albania proceeds
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) April 19, 2024 – An ICSID tribunal has refused to separately hear Albania’s preliminary objections to a claim brought...