Hardcore restrictions: The French Competition Authority sanctions bid rigging practices established by container handling companies in Le Havre harbour (Perrigault)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a decision on the merits rendered on April 15, 2010, after an initial rejection by the Competition Council in 2008 of the request for measures introduced by the world's leading shipowner, the Danish AP Møller-Maersk against practices by two small handling operators in the port of Le Havre, the Authority of the competition punishes, without really convincing, and finally with leniency, at least with regard to the seriousness it seems to attribute to the practices sanctioned and to the extent of the damage thus caused to economy, two agreements implemented by container handling companies in the Port of Le Havre. The first agreement, which arose following