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the Russian authority antitrust opens an investigation on the marine agencies that represent the main shipowners of the line field
the companies are Maersk Line, MSC, CMA CGM, APL, "K" Linens, NYK, OOCL, Lower Shipping, HMM, ZIM, COSCO, Evergreen and Hapag-Lloyd
December 4, 2013
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of the Russian Federation has started an investigation in order to ascertain if a series of Russian marine agencies that represent the main shipowning companies that operate in the field of the containerized marine transport have violated the normative antitrusts of Russia.
Object of the investigation is agencies "Maersk" CJSC (that it represents the company Maersk Line), "Mediterranean Shipping Company Rus" Ltd. (group MSC), "CMA CGM Rus" Ltd. (group CMA CGM), "APL SNG" Ltd. (group NOL/APL), "K" Line RUS" Ltd. (group "K" Linens), "NYK Line RUS" Ltd. (group NYK), "OOCL Russia Limited" Ltd. (group OOCL), "Lowers Shipping Agency Russia" Ltd. (group Lowers Shipping), "Hyundai Merchant Marine CIS" Ltd. (group HMM), "ZIM Russia" CJSC (Zim group), "COSCO RUSSIA" Ltd. (group COSCO), "Evergreen Shipping Agency Russian Limited" Ltd. (group Evergreen), "Ocean Container Services MSK" Ltd. and "Ocean Container Services" Ltd. (both of group OCS and agents of Hapag-Lloyd).
The Russian authority antitrust has specified that the investigation is started as a result of the examination of material obtained in the course of inspections on surprise carried out this year from civil employees of the FAS and the Ministry of the Interior near the offices of the marine agencies.
"Currently - of the FAS, Alexander Kinev has declared assistant manager - the marine transport of the container has a meaningful impact on the development of the international commerce. The cost of such transport represents an important quota the price of the assets and agreements on the hires in this market can have a extremely meaningful impact on the total economy and the economy of the single nations. Inquiring on the case of "oceanic trust" - it has concluded Kinev - FAS it will have to examine the actions of foreign companies of navigation. There are the necessary legal bases in order to make it. Moreover we are anxious to work with the guarantor foreign authorities of the competition".
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