News / Shippers will get no cash from air cargo antitrust payments from carriers, court rules

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Shippers are not entitled to any funds paid out by airlines to forwarders in the long-running air cargo antitrust case, a New York court has ruled.

The reason, it says, is because freight forwarders acted as more than agents.

Shippers such as DuPont and Sears had argued that, as buyers of air cargo services using freight forwarders only as brokers, they were entitled to settlements offered by a group of airlines accused of breaking antitrust legislation.

However, the court ruled that as indirect purchasers ...