News / Shippers' council slams block exemption rule and calls for liner consortia reform

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As the European Commission continues its review of the liner shipping’s Block Exemption Regulation (BER), which allows container carriers to work in consortia, cargo owner lobby group the European Shippers Council (ESC) has called for the law to be repealed – or at least fundamentally altered.

The BER, which became the de facto legislation covering liner alliances – allowing carriers to share operational data – after the EU outlawed the liner conference system in 2010, and is set to expire on ...