{"id":31888,"date":"2022-11-09T07:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/brazilian-association-of-port-terminals-accuses-maersk-and-msc-of-exploiting-their-dominance\/31888\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T07:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:52:32","slug":"brazilian-association-of-port-terminals-accuses-maersk-and-msc-of-exploiting-their-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/brazilian-association-of-port-terminals-accuses-maersk-and-msc-of-exploiting-their-dominance\/31888\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Association of Port Terminals accuses Maersk and MSC of exploiting their dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>The Brazilian Association of Port Terminals (ABTP) has officially asked the country\u2019s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) to investigate possible exploitation by Maersk and MSC of their dominant position in Brazil\u2019s maritime container industry.<\/p>\n<p>The association accuses the two carriers, which it says together transport 79% of containers along the Brazilian coast, of directing cargo to the seven port terminals they own. According to ABTP, those seven terminals handle almost half of Brazil\u2019s containerised cargo.<\/p>\n<p>ABTP president Jesualdo Concei\u00e7\u00e3o Silva noted in an interview with Farol Econ\u00f4mico that the situation is likely to worsen, as Maersk won an auction in July to buy Atl\u00e2ntico Sul Shipyard at the Port of Suape.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Silva sees the possibility that areas in Brazil where Maersk and MSC do not have terminals will be disadvantaged to the point that their ports are no longer economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 95% of our foreign trade is done via ports,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are talking about national sovereignty here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/brazil\/\" rel=\"tag\">Brazil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/maersk\/\" rel=\"tag\">Maersk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/msc\/\" rel=\"tag\">MSC<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian Association of Port Terminals (ABTP) has officially asked the country\u2019s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) to investigate possible exploitation by Maersk and MSC of their dominant position in Brazil\u2019s maritime container industry. The association accuses the two carriers, which it says together transport 79% of containers along the Brazilian coast, of directing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/31889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}