Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
Grain operators in Constanta port receive fines
Constanta, Romania (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024 – The Constanța Environmental Guard has fined 15,000 lei each to four grain operators operating in...
River access channel to Port 2000 gets green light
Rouen, France (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – On March 29, the Administrative Court of Rouen rejected an application to suspend work on the river access...
Eni Versalis ends dispute in Brindisi
Brindisi, Italy (Ports Europe) March 28, 2024 – Eni Versalis has withdrawn its appeal against the landfill project in the Costa Morena area in the port...
Anti-corruption authority challenges Genoa port breakwater process
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe)- March 27, 2024 – Italy’s anti-corruption authority (ANAC) has challenged the procedures for awarding the Genoa...
Local court rejects Grimaldi entry into Port of Ravenna
Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) March 19, 2024 – The Bologna Regional Administrative Court has rejected an initial request by Sapir to suspend the award of...
Supreme Court gives green light to logistics area of Port of Valencia
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2024 – The Supreme Court (TS) has endorsed the legality of the ZAL special plan. This means that Valencia City...
Port of Antwerp-Bruges ordered to pay €41 million to DP World
Antwerp, Belgium (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – A split ICSID tribunal has ordered the Port of Antwerp-Bruges to pay €41 million plus costs and...
Greek tanker fined for pollution in Port of Marseille
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) February 20, 2024 – A tanker operated by a Greek company being held since Thursday in the Port of Marseille for marine...
Local court cancels zoning plans for Kanal Istanbul
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 16, 2024 – On February 13, 2024, the Istanbul 11th Administrative Court cancelled the development plan of the...
Stefano Lupi is the new CEO of Cantiere Navale Vittoria
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) January 31, 2024 – Cantiere Navale Vittoria has announced that the new CEO of the company has taken office. Hired by the...
Alleged corruption at Port of Cartagena
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2024 – The court investigating the alleged irregularities in connection with the awarding of contracts in the...
Eteria loses Genoa breakwater appeal
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 2, 2023 – The Liguria Regional Administrative Court (TAR) has rejected the appeal of the Eteria consortium against...
Damen ends interest in Mangalia shipyard, Romania
Manglia, Romania (Ports Europe) August 7, 2023 – Damen Holding BV has ended its legal agreement on Mangalia shipyard with the government....
EMS Albania Port Operator confronts Durres port authority
Durrës, Albania (Ports Europe) August 4, 2023 – Port concessionaire EMS Albania Port Operator (EMS APO) said that Durres port authority refused access...
Durres Port Authority denies statements by EMS-APO
Press Release – Durres Port Authority – July 29, 2023 The Durres Port Authority strongly condemns the utterly misleading statements of the...
Naples port terminal operators under investigation
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – The Italian competition and markets authority is investigating four terminal operators in the port of Naples...
Dispute of proposed floating solar facility off Port of Taranto
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) June 29, 2023 – There is a dispute surrounding a proposed floating solar facility off the Port of Taranto in Puglia. The...
Greek Council of State suspends Piraeus Port expansion
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – The Greek Council of State has suspended three investment project which are part of the Piraeus Port...
Regional court rules against Genoa Port breakwater contract
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 11, 2023 – The regional court (TAR) has ruled against the contract for the construction of a new breakwater. The Port...
Sale of Croatian shipyard Uljanik attracts zero interest
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) May 10, 2023 – A public auction for the sale of the Pula-based, Croatian Uljanik Brodogradnja 1856, set for last Monday,...