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Carriers Fined Millions for Price Collusion Call Fines Insignificant as They Make Billions

Keith Wallis reported in a Journal of Commerce article this week that South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined ocean freight carriers over $80 million for collaborating in setting freight [...]

Is It Time to Change or Replace Ocean Shipping Reform Act?

Now that international shipping is dominated by three carrier alliances, the 2M, OCEAN Alliance, and THE Alliance, many shippers are worried about freight rate collusion between the shipping [...]

FMC Stops Japan’s Big 3 Carriers From Jumping the Gun on Merger

The “Tripartite Agreement” is what it was called–an agreement between Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd (K Line), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) that included [...]

Carriers Fined Millions for Price Collusion Call Fines Insignificant as They Make Billions

Is It Time to Change or Replace Ocean Shipping Reform Act?

FMC Stops Japan’s Big 3 Carriers From Jumping the Gun on Merger