Container carriers believe in EU deal before 2016
The protracted case concerning the container industry's allegedly coordinated rate increases could lead to a deal between the industry and the EU's Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, later this year, industry sources tell ShippingWatch.
BY TOMAS KRISTIANSEN
The EU Commission's by now several years long investigation of 14 container carriers' alleged coordination of general rate increases could maybe result in a deal between shipowners and the EU later this year, industry sources tell ShippingWatch, though it has not been possible to confirm the information with the EU's competition authorities.
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