the Antitrust fine the companies that operate fleeting services of marine transport in the gulfs of Naples and Salerno



The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) has comminato endorsements for beyond 14 million euros to the main fleeting operators of the marine transport in the gulfs of Naples and Salerno. Draft of of the Campania enterprises that manage the connections with the islands of Ischia and Capri and with the greater centers of the coast as Amalfi, Sorrento, Positano, Castellammare and Torre Annunziata, let alone from Naples with the Aeolian Islands and some Latium ports with the Pontine Islands. Endorsed also trade association ACAP (Shipping Association Cabotage Partenopei) with the other created common organisms in the time from the same shipowners (CLMP and Gescab).

The responsible subjects of the violations found from the Authority Antitrust are in all ten: Free Alicost, Alilauro, Alilauro Gruson, Marine Services Giuffré & Lauro (SMLG), SNAV, Free Navigation of Gulf (NLG), Medmar Ships, Consortium Marine Lines Partenopee (CLMP), Gescab and ACAP.

The elevated endorsement more, pairs to 6,24 million euros, are inflicted to the SNAV, the company controlled from Marinvest that is under responsibility of the group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) of the shipowner Gianluigi Aponte. Fines pairs to 2,20 million euros are comminate to Medmar Ships, controlled from the Rifim financial institution that the family Of Abundo is under responsibility of, and to the NLG, than also it is under responsibility of Gianluigi Aponte. The Alilauro is fined for 1,85 million euros and its controlled Alilauro Gruson for 900 thousand euros. The endorsement comminata to the Alicost of the shipowning group Lauro piles to 370 thousand euros. Al consortium CLMP, that it is in state of liquidation and is participated by Alilauro, Alilauro Gruson, Alicost, NLG, SNAV and SMLG, is inflicted a fine of 200 thousand euros. The Gescab, participated from Alicost, Lauro.it, Alilauro Gruson and SNAV, is fined for 190 thousand euros. The fine to the SMLG has an amount of thousand euros.

Specifying that it is the first time that the Authority has exercised the power to compulsory reopen a already closed preliminary investigation with the engagements sign previously from the involved societies, the AGCM has explained "that on the base of numerous signallings of the consumers and with the collaboration of the Customs corps (Group Antitrust - special Nucleus Protection Markets), the Authority has been able to assess that NLG, Alilauro, Alicost, Alilauro Gruson, Medmar Ships, SNAV has violated the engagements assumed and returned required with deliberation of 2009, replying in the called society Gescab the activities of illicit coordination already realized previously through the Consortium Marine Lines Partenopee (CLMP). In this way, from 1998 today - he has found the Antitrust - these operators and to a lesser degree SMLG, have continued to coordinate themselves between they, also through the activity of the CLMP, ACAP and Gescab, in all the main commercial and operating aspects. And they have adopted, at last, regulations for the "only ticket" that would have to afford to the user to embark itself without burdens also on means of another carrier, but that in reality of it does not return possible I use it".

"The enterprises - it has continued the Antitrust - have put in existence in the market of the marine transport fleeting, by means of fast ferries and units, restrictive a horizontal understanding of the competition. This has happened, on with of the routes in the gulfs of Naples and Salerno as well as on some connections for the Aeolian and Pontine islands, based on a recurrent model based on a systematic exchange of sensitive information. The anti-competitive understanding has come true in a complex and articulated strategy it mails in being from all the main of Campania private shipowners, in order to be shared costs and revenues according to predefined historical quotas and not based on the activity effectively carried out. It is the inottemperanza to the engagements is the restrictive understanding still turn out in course".