shipping conference

Even without deregulation, the shipping conferences have been the cartels that couldn't shoot straight.

The argument that shipping conferences have supposedly brought about better and cheaper services for the workers is unsubstantiated.

Liner shipping conferences do the same for part of the nonbulk maritime transportation.

Today, the same business groups are calling for shipping conferences to be abolished and the European Commission agrees with this.

Export cartels and shipping conferences are examples of public cartels.

In February 1947, he chaired the International Shipping Conference in London.

Shipping conferences regulate the lines of ships' round trips, the ports they put into, the number of ships available for each line and the freightage charged.

Initially, the port struggled to compete with the more established ports, partly because of the inertia of the influential shipping conferences (cartels).

Ltd. the plaintiff argued he had been driven from the Chinese tea market by competitors at a 'shipping conference' that had acted together to underprice his company.

At a recent shipping conference in New York, Cypriot officials relied on Mr. Oldendorff to persuade more owners to register ships there.

Thus the very popular MARITIME CYPRUS shipping conference which takes place every 2 years, attracting all the largest shipping companies of the world.

However, members of the American-West African Shipping Conference said they had been arbitrarily denied shipments by the NMA, an issue raised several times by the United States government.

New trading routes from Manchester to West Africa and Mediterranean ports were countered by the established shipping conferences sharply reducing their own charges and by inducing their customers to sign binding contracts.

Shipping conferences were developed for the transportation of raw materials and in international trade in general, mainly between the northern European shore and shipping monopolies, and they secured huge, astronomical profits for euro-unifying capital.

However, following Eden's disagreement with Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Leader of the House of Lords and influential politician, over the issue, any agreement recognising Italian sovereignty was postponed until after the planned shipping conference had taken place.

For instance, shipping conferences or consortia are not intrinsically anticompetitive, but would only get EC clearance if member firms still had to compete with independent lines on any given route and if the cost savings and other spin-offs from collaboration were passed on to clients and consumers.

No sooner had he reported in as down for at least a day than a directive arrived from the Admiralty ordering him to the surface immediately to attend one of Onrad's War Cabinet meetings in place of Gallsworthy, while the latter participated in a shipping conference on Helios.