the Shipping Association Cabotage Partenopei has expressed "hard worry" for the fines comminate from the Antitrust



The Shipping Association Cabotage Partenopei (ACAP) has expressed "regret and fort worry" for the provision with which the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) it has endorsed for beyond 14 million euros the main active companies of navigation in the Gulf of Naples ( on 10 February 2015).

Emphasized to consider "that the provision is deeply unjust", in particular the association it has contested that "the enterprises have put into effect restrictive a horizontal understanding of the competition" and that "the enterprises have violated the engagements assumed in outcome to the I689 procedure, than the same AGCM had closed in 2009 without to assess some infraction of the antitrust laws".

The ACAP considers to have demonstrated in the course of the procedure "that the field of the marine transports in the Gulf of Naples constitutes a open market and accessible, neither - it has specified the association - the AGCM has characterized some imputable conduct to the private companies of navigation that has had for object or effect the closing of the market".

"Analogous - it has found the ACAP - in tariff matter, the AGCM has not tried some "collusion on the prices". It is famous - the association has remembered - than in the market of the Gulf of Naples, the rates have been fixed at first from the State (by means of the definition of the Caremar rates) and successively from the Campania Region. Sul point - it has explain moreover the association - the ACAP has documented with a skill written up from an independent economist who in the past decade the rates do not have never quickly advanced increase to the programmed annual inflation".

The association has denounced that "the amount of the irrogate endorsements, pairs altogether to beyond 14 million euros, appears to say little exorbitant" and has evidenced that, "if applied, similar fines would unavoidably lead to the crisis economic-financial institution for numerous productive enterprises that give decades contribute to the development of the Country, pouring huge taxes and social insurance contributions; to the loss of about job 1.000 places".

The association has announced will resort to the administrative judge against the provision of the AGCM, "in order to assert in such center - it has concluded the ACAP - the numerous profiles of injustice and bastardies that vitiate the provision".