The Brazilian Association of Port Terminals is a group representing 73 port companies across 235 terminals in Brazil. This week, it filed a legal request at Brazil’s Administrative Economic Defense Council to investigate Maersk and MSC’s impact on the port market. The ABTP is accursing the two companies of abusing their dominating position in the maritime transport of containers business to favor their own terminals, raising costs and reducing options for the flow of cargo in Brazil.
The ABTP claims that, in Brazil, MSC and Maersk are responsible for 79% of containers (53% directly and another 26% through commercial agreements) transported along the Brazilian coast. According to them, the control of the flow of cargo is done in such a way that the seven port terminals owned by the two companies would be favored to the detriment of others, even in cases in which other ports are closer to the origin/destination of the cargo.
Source: en.mercopress.com