Container

German shipowners fear supply chain disruption without block exemption

Carriers will become less efficient if they cannot cooperate as smoothly once the EU abolishes the competition exemption , warns VDR.
Complications and inefficiencies could hit container shipping when the European Commission abolishes the shipping companies' exemption from competition rules, VDR fears. | Photo: Bodo Marks/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Complications and inefficiencies could hit container shipping when the European Commission abolishes the shipping companies' exemption from competition rules, VDR fears. | Photo: Bodo Marks/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
by JENS THOMSEN

The repeal of the exemption of carriers from EU competition rules could create friction and inefficiencies in global supply chains, warns the German shipowners’ association, Verband Deutscher Reeder (VDR).

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