Comment / Against the odds: US banana importer joins trucker's FMC action against Hapag-Lloyd

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In response to this week’s Loadstar story on South Korean antitrust regulators fining 23 container lines for price-fixing on the intra-Asia trades between 2003 and 2018, one source sent a WhatsApp message to our editorial team that said simply: “And so it begins…”

This is one of the several transport executives who have been engaged over the last few months as expert witnesses by law firms that are beginning to prepare cases against the container carriers that are likely to allege, ...