If one asks a horde of maritime lawyers, they will all be easily able to list the series of past EU Commissioners for Competition that have relied on a hard-line approach, with the maritime industry on one side and Brussels on the other. And these two sides would mainly just fight each other. This could be back in the days of Karel van Miert or, most recently, Joaquin Almunio, who dictated what the industry should do without the parties really feeling that they had been involved or their voices heard.