News / Global Shippers Forum renews attack on EC Block Exemption Regulation

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The Global Shippers Forum (GSF) has renewed lobbying the European Commission’s competition directorate to take a closer look at the liner shipping industry.

A year ago, almost to the day, the EC granted container lines another four years of exemption from its cartel competition laws under the Block Exemption Regulation (BER), under which container lines are allowed to share operational data and form shipping alliances.

The GSF said the enormous rise in freight rates, coupled with all the other container supply chain ...