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The EC’s competition commission, DG Comp, has found Kuehne + Nagel, DB Schenker and Austrian Rail Cargo’s Express Interfracht guilty of running a cartel on block-train rail freight services into south-east Europe.

The EC said yesterday the three firms had fixed prices, as well as negotiating other cartel practices, between 2004 and 2012 on two jointly operated block-train services: Balkantrain, which connects south-east Europe with west and central Europe; and Soptrain, which serves Romania through the Hungarian intermodal hub of Sopron.

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  • John Roberts

    July 17, 2015 at 1:44 pm

    Funny how its always the same cheeky monkeys involved in price fixing and cartels. It wasn’t too long ago that these companies were fined for fixing air freight rates.
    I wonder what they’ll fix next..