News / Shippers urge EC and other regulators to take charge of 'skewed' liner market

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Regulators must start to take an interest in the “unfair” container line market, according to shippers.

“The writing is on the wall for the European Commission,” Global Shippers’ Forum director James Hookham told The Loadstar Podcast.

“It has always been a slightly unfair market. Shippers don’t begrudge the profits being made; the principal argument is not that lines are making money, it’s that the competition authorities have provided a market in which so much is open to question.

“It’s very difficult to see ...