European shippers have warned that they intend to fight on against the European Commission’s plans to extend the block exemption from EU competition rules, which allows liner shipping groups to form consortia.
The commission had already indicated in November that it was favourable to a four-year extension of the exemption, but the shippers and their allies claim that in including plans to extend the exemption in its newly published work programme, it has taken no account of the objections they...
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