Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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the mexican authority antitrust has endorsed seven marine companies that transport car
They have been in existence monopolistic practical the accused to have tight comes to an agreement in order to segment the market and put
June 12, 2017
The mexican authority antitrust Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica (COFECE) has comminato endorsements for a total of 581,7 million pesos (32 million dollars) regarding seven societies that take care of the marine transport of motor vehicles that have been the accused to have tight come to an agreement in order to segment the market and to have put practical in existence monopolistic.
Draft of the company of Chilean navigation Compañía American South de Vapores (CSAV), of the Japanese Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Linens) and of its branch American "K" America Linens, of the Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and of its branch American Mitsui O.S.K. Bulk Shipping (the USA), of the Japanese Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) and of the Norwegian Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL).
According to the COFECE, these marine companies, the whose services they include ports of call to the mexican ports, between 2009 and the 2012 have tightened nine agreements colluded to you whose effect in some cases has reached until 2015. "With such agreements - it has emphasized the authority antitrust - the competitive pressure is limited and is elevated the cost of the services offered to the automotive companies of the field".
The COFECE has remembered that of the automobile is one of the more important fields for Mexico "is for the increase that for the attraction of investments direct foreign countries. Mexico - it has evidenced the authority - is the seventh world-wide producer of automobiles and the fourth exporter".
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