News / Anger from objectors as liner shipping block exemption extension is ‘nodded through'

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A forum of shippers, freight forwarders and port service providers have slammed the high-handedness of the EC for including an extension of the consortia block exemption regulation (BER) for liner shipping in its 2020 work programme to the European parliament.

The “done deal” for a four-year BER extension was included in the EC’s communication to the European parliament on 29 January, under Annex 11 item 27, which it justified as continuing “to simplify the analysis of consortia’s compliance with competition rules, ...