Container

EU faced difficult case against container carriers

After a multiple-year investigation of the world's largest container carriers, the EU Commission this week decided to make a deal with the carriers. Without being able to prove infringement on competition laws. Easy task for the carriers, shipping analyst tells ShippingWatch.
Photo: Hyundai Merchant Marine
Photo: Hyundai Merchant Marine
BY KATRINE GRØNVALD RAUN

This week's outcome of the three-year investigation into 15 of the world's largest container carriers, to discern whether they violated EU competition laws by coordinating prices, did not come as a surprise to many.

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