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...
The removal of the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER), while providing a threshold of 30% to continue operating alliances, leaves liner operators vulnerable to gaps in the interpretation of the rules.
Lars Jensen, founding CEO of liner shipping consultancy Vespucci Maritime, made this opinion in his latest commentary for the Baltic Exchange.
He said, “The abolition of CBER will not prohibit the use of consortia. What is shrouded in uncertainty is the legal framework as the ruling from...
https://container-news.com/cber-removal-adds-to-market-uncertainty/
To close what it believes to be the legal vacuum that will exist from 25 April 2024, following the expiry of the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER), the Federation of European Private Port Companies and Terminals (FEPORT) believes “the European Commission (EC) should now set clear limits on the behavior on the market for large alliances and strictly enforce existing laws.”
There have been vertical and horizontal integrations of shipping companies as well as shipping companies and...
https://container-news.com/eu-should-limit-market-behaviors-for-alliances-says-feport/
Αs the European Commission considers renewing the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER) that enables current container shipping alliances to operate, liner operators and shippers are once again locking horns.
The review is being done ahead of the existing CBER expiring on 25 April 2024.
The World Shipping Council (WSC), representing liner operators, said in a statement on 4 October that the CBER is an essential regulatory tool that yields significant benefits to the EU, with no downside...
https://container-news.com/lines-and-shippers-clash-over-cber-extension/
EU rules for vessel sharing – reducing environmental impact and increasing efficiency for global trade, reports World Shipping Council.
Consortia Block Exemption RegulationTo assist ports and customers efficiently, international ocean carriers often share space on vessels.
Vessel sharing aiding the EU is...
https://mfame.guru/eu-rules-vessel-sharing-for-reducing-environmental-impacts/
As the European Commission (EC) continues to investigate whether to prolong the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER), which permits vessel-sharing, the conflict between shipping lines and their clients is escalating as reported by The Loadstar.
Block exemptionThe closing date for evidence submission to the EC was yesterday, and the current CBER expires on 25 April 2024.
Last month, Israel extended its block exemption for three years without any substantial changes.
But it is the EC that...
https://mfame.guru/shippers-want-change-as-the-ec-evaluation-of-cber-becomes-a-point-of-contention/