ILWU agree new USWC labour contract

The long running dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) over the failed operation of a container handling facility at Terminal 6 in Portland, Oregon, has been resolved.

A feeder vessel due to arrive at Hamburg Tollerort terminal today from a port in the Eastern Baltic will be lashed and unlashed by the ship’s crew to reduce costs; MSC offer results now in

The Port of Barcelona and a Québec-based innovation hub focused on the blue economy have formed a strategic partnership

The action concerns the ports of Malmö, Södertälje, Gothenburg and Trelleborg and is likely to spread to other Swedish ports, and perhaps ports in Denmark and Norway

The Swedish Dockworkers’ Union has called for three days of strikes from 9 to 11 July in Gothenburg Ro-Ro Terminal and in the Port of Helsingborg

A 36-hour pilot boatmens’ strike has closed the Port of Hamburg to almost all vessels