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

11/04/2016

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, ...

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Andy Robins
April 12, 2016 at 1:53 am
That is interesting, if the Airlines were in cahoots with these Agents they are both guilty. Thus the Shippers should have sued the Agents based on the HAWB and the carriers where a direct MAWB was used citing the Shipper as Consignor.

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