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Report: Exemption has created distrust in shipping companies

The perception that shipping companies are under less scrutiny than other sectors needs to be changed, the European Commission writes in report.
For years, the major shipping companies have benefited from an exemption from European competition rules that allows them to share information about customers and space on each other's container ships. | Photo: Malte Ossowski/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
For years, the major shipping companies have benefited from an exemption from European competition rules that allows them to share information about customers and space on each other's container ships. | Photo: Malte Ossowski/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by NIKLAS KRIGSLUND

Favorable treatment of liner companies has sowed distrust in the shipping industry, following the explosive rise in rates during the corona crisis, says the European Commission in a new report.

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