Liner companies: Block Exemption has ensured lower rates

The container carriers continue their fight for an extension of the unique consortia block exemption regulation, which allows competing shipping lines to cooperate. In a letter to the EU Commission, the association lists four arguments in favor of the regulation.
Photo: /ritzau/Christian Charisius
Photo: /ritzau/Christian Charisius

Liner companies from across the world, gathered in the World Shipping Council, WSC, now once again call on the EU Commission to extend the so-called Block Exemption Regulation, BER, which allows for cooperation between container shipping lines that otherwise compete against each other.

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