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Comment on this article
John Roberts
July 17, 2015 at 1:44 pmFunny 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..