Las principales novedades jurídicas en el sector de la estiba

Abstract

In line with two regulations, one projected -the Draft Reform of the ConsolidatedText of the Law on State Ports and the Merchant Marine- and another recentlypublished, Law 4/2022, of February 25, on the protection of consumers and usersfacing situations of social and economic vulnerability (BOE nº 51, of March 1, 2022), two issues of wide significance in port stowage are analyzed. I am referring,on the one hand, to the regime limiting the liability of port handling companies and,on the other, the transformation of the Port Stevedore Management Corporationsinto Port Employment Centers, in order to comply with the recommendations of theEuropean Union in terms of freedom of establishment, as regards the case here:stevedoring companies wishing to establish themselves in Spanish ports.