UK freight forwarders have welcomed the news that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is recommending, provisionally, that the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) should lapse when it expires on 25 April 2024.
Recently, the UK’s main trade association for freight forwarding and logistics companies stated that its members are extremely concerned that container shipping lines’ practices, as well as easements and exemptions granted to them, have been distorting free market...