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The authority Japanese antitrust inquires on a presumed trust constituted from the shipowners
Inspections in order to ascertain if the hires for the exports of motors vehicle and other producing are agreed
September 7, 2012
Yesterday the authority Japanese antitrust has carried out inspections near ten shipowning companies to the aim to characterize elements in order to ascertain if the societies have constituted a trust in order to agree the relative hires to the exports of motors vehicle and other producing from the Asian nation.
Between the companies which took aim from the Japan Fair Trade Commission Linens figure the three main shipowning companies Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K"), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK), let alone filial Japanese of foreign societies between which the Norwegian Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) and the Eukor Car Carriers South Korean who have confirmed a visit of the inspectors of the antitrust to own Japanese offices.
Moreover a demand for information by the EU commission in merit to a possible infraction to the norms on the competition has been revolt to the same Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics that, so as Eukor Car Carriers, is contacted also by the American federal authorities and from the Competition Bureau of Canada.
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