Legal Issues
A category including all all legal issues associated with port companies, activities and management. Issues including European Union legal involvement.
National Anti-Corruption Authority removes head of Trieste port, Zeno D’Agostino
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – Trieste port was stunned last week by the news that ANAC, the National Anti-Corruption Authority, had...
Court ruling delays Yacht Harbour Project of Büyükçekmece Municipality
Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) June 11, 2020 – Büyükçekmece Municipality, west of Istanbul, has plans to construct a harbour for yachting at a cost...
Supreme Court of Ukraine unblocks Kherson port privatisation
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) May 13, 2020 – The Supreme Court of Ukraine has ruled to cancel an early ruling by the Sixth Administrative Court of...
Tirrenia di Navigazione receives good and bad news from the EU Commission
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) March 3, 2020 – The European Commission has ruled that the public service compensation granted since 2009 to Tirrenia di...
Uljanik, the Pula shipyard, will go into liquidation
Pula, Croatia (Ports Europe) January 29, 2020 – Following a decision of the Commercial Court in Pazin, the Pula shipyard Uljanik d.d. will go into...
Court rejects appeal against Valencia port ZAL
The Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community rules against the appeal filed by the association “Per l’Horta”, dismisses the...
Ukraine to demand over UAH 1.24 billion from Russia as compensation for lost property in Crimean ports
Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) November 20, 2019 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) is set to demand over over UAH 1.24 billion in compensation...
Andrea Annunziata suspended from AdSP del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (Augusta)
Catania, Italy (PortSEurope) October 7, 2019 – The President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare di Sicilia Orientale (AdSP – Eastern...
Yilport gets go-ahead for Taranto port concession
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) July 19, 2019 – The regional court (TAR) has rejected the appeal of Southgate Europe Terminal Consortium, giving the...
Las Palmas port to start Reina Sofia dock extension project in August
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2019 – Spain’s Central Contractual Administrative Court has dismissed an appeal by construction...
Lazio court reduces fine imposed on ferry companies Moby, CIN
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – The Lazio Regional Administrative Court has reduced a fine imposed by the country’s antitrust...
Hyundai to hold counterfeit car parts seminar in Rijeka port
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) June 3, 2019 – Hyundai has organised a seminar to address the problem of counterfeit car parts in Rijeka port, Kyung Min...
Italy arrests six on alleged corruption charges at Naples port
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) May 28, 2019 – Eleven companies active in Naples port were searched during an operation of the Coast Guard and financial police...
Spanish court dismisses claim by Noatum against Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – The Spanish Administrative Court has dismissed a claim by Noatum Maritime for the payment of a €14 million...
Croatia’s Pazin court launches bankruptcy proceedings against Uljanik Group
Rijeka, Croatia (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Croatia’s Pazin court has launched bankruptcy proceedings against the Uljanik Group, the parent of...
Spanish court probes into alleged contracting irregularities by A Coruña port
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Spain’s Court of Accounts has opened a procedure caused by potential accounting irregularities in the...
China’s Cosco brings Valencia port’s expansion project to court
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – Two years’ ago, Chinese group Cosco Shipping Ports Limited, the third largest container shipping company...
Spanish court dismisses appeal by Sacyr against Las Palmas port tender
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) May 1, 2019 – Spain’s Central Administrative Court has ruled not to admit the appeal filed by construction company...
Brodotrogir d.d. shipyard enters bankruptcy proceedings
Split, Croatia (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – The Commercial Court in Croatian port of Split has opened pre-bankruptcy procedures over the Brodotrogir...
Court confirms fine on VilagarcÃa port for environmental rules violation
VilagarcÃa, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2019 – The Pontevedra administrative court has confirmed the sanction imposed by the Galicia regional government...