News / Shippers cry foul as competition regulators ignore consortia

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Measures used to calculate the concentration and market shares of shipping lines fail to take into account co-operation outside of alliances in vessel-sharing agreements.

Therefore they are “incomplete” and “inaccurate”, claims consultant MDS Transmodal (MDST)

As the EC gears up for its two-year container shipping Consortia Block Exemption Review (CBER), expected to be announced this week, a joint report by the Global shippers’ Forum (GSF) and MDST, published today, argues that the levels of market share in some trades are far higher ...