南非指控八家主要航运公司实施了10年定价计划,使2008年至2018年的运费膨胀。 South Africa accuses eight major shipping firms of a 10-year price-fixing scheme, inflating freight costs between 2008 and 2018.

南非竞争委员会已将包括Maersk在内的八家主要航运公司移交竞争法庭,指控它们从2008年到2018年存在长达十年的固定价格卡特尔。 South Africa’s Competition Commission has referred eight major shipping firms, including Maersk, to the Competition Tribunal over allegations of a decade-long price-fixing cartel from 2008 to 2018. 这些公司被指控在南非和亚洲以及南非和西非之间的贸易路线上协调相同的总税率增长,人为地使航运成本膨胀。 The companies are accused of coordinating identical General Rate Increases on trade routes between South Africa and Asia, and South Africa and West Africa, artificially inflating shipping costs. 这一行动旨在降低进口价格,提高出口竞争力。 The move aims to lower import prices and boost export competitiveness. Maersk对Transnet决定向设在菲律宾的ICTSI授予为期25年的德班港口特许权的决定提出法律质疑, 高等法院于10月维持了这一决定。 The case follows Maersk’s failed legal challenge to Transnet’s decision to award a 25-year Durban port concession to the Philippines-based ICTSI, which the high court upheld in October.