News / European forwarders call for urgent EC probe into 'distorted' liner market

Margrethe Vestager. Photo: EC

Freight forwarder association Clecat is asking the EC competition directorate to urgently investigate what it claims are “distortions” in the liner shipping market.

Clecat wrote to commissioner Margrethe Vestager calling for the regulator to establish “the degree of concentration, consolidation, coordination, and cartelisation in the upstream container liner shipping services markets serving the EU, and the downstream markets for freight forwarding services”.

Clecat director general Nicolette van der Jagt told The Loadstar that, at the centre of the market distortions was the ...