Brussels GA_P (February 2018)

With regard to the first ones, the Commission established that Chilean maritime carrier CSAV, the Japanese carriers «K» Line, MOL and NYK, and the Norwegian/Swedish carrier WWL-EUKOR participated in a cartel concerning intercontinental maritime transport of vehicles from 2006 to 2012. According to the Commission, the carriers’ sales managers held regular meetings at different locations and spoke over the phone. The aim of these contacts was to coordinate prices, allocate customers and exchange commercially sensitive information. The participants to the cartel proposed artificially high prices or abstained from participating in specific tenders so as to stay off each other’s traditional routes and customers…