Competition Commision raids carriers

The South African competition commision (CC) has raided the offices of six carriers in the Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal provinces.

In a statement, the CC said it had reasonable grounds to suspect that the South African subsidiaries of Hamburg Sud, Maersk, MSC, PIL, CMA CGM Shipping Agencies South Africa and Safmarine have engaged in collusive practices.

In particular, the CC suspected that the companies had, among other things, fixed the incremental rates for the shipment of cargo from Asia to South Africa in contravention of the competition act.