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the Antitrust wants to assess if the operators of services in the Strait of Messina have placed in existence a restrictive understanding of the competition
Notification and inspections to the centers of seven companies
July 2, 2013
The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) has started a preliminary investigation in order to verify if the companies of navigation and the operators who carry out marine services and of transport in the Strait of Messina have placed in existence a restrictive understanding of the competition. In particular, with the investigation the Authority Antitrust intends to ascertain if Charon & Tourist, Italian Railway Net (RFI), Bluferries, Lines Meridian, Ustica Lines, Terminal Tremestieri and Consorzio Metromare of the Strait have put in existence an understanding finalized to the concertazione of the prices and the division of the market.
The provision is notified today to the seven companies in the course of inspections carried out in collaboration with the Group Antitrust of the Special Nucleus Protection Markets of the Customs corps. The preliminary investigation will have to be concluded within on October 31, 2014.
The AGCM has explained that, second the first collected data, in the last three years the prices "have recorded meaningful and contextual increments, as testifies in emblematic way - it has specified the Antitrust - the evolution of the fleeting rates of the transport, identical and with increases until 150%".
According to the Authority Antitrust, "the presumed understanding would have the scope to eliminate any confronts competitive, also potential, between the operators" and "a determining role would be attributable to the two historical operators, Charon & Tourist and RFI, that they would have reached new "balances" in a position to satisfying the requirements of both and to block current and eventual new smaller competitors".
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The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) has started a preliminary investigation in order to verify if the companies of navigation and the operators who carry out marine services and of transport in the Strait of Messina have placed in existence a restrictive understanding of the competition. In particular, with the investigation the Authority Antitrust intends to ascertain if Charon & Tourist, Italian Railway Net (RFI), Bluferries, Lines Meridian, Ustica Lines, Terminal Tremestieri and Consorzio Metromare of the Strait have put in existence an understanding finalized to the concertazione of the prices and the division of the market.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
