{"id":7358,"date":"2009-02-18T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/02\/18\/anti-trust-authority-slaps-fines-on-piraeus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:32:21","slug":"anti-trust-authority-slaps-fines-on-piraeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/anti-trust-authority-slaps-fines-on-piraeus\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-trust authority slaps fines on Piraeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each has been fined a total of \u00a21.28m ($1.6m). While the anti-trust authority found that the contract signed between the port authority and MSC hadn&#8217;t deliberately intended to prevent other companies from competing, it nevertheless had a negative impact on competition.<\/p>\n<p>The contract lasted until the end of 2004 and since 2005, claims the anti-trust authority, things have improved considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piraeus Port Authority and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) havebeen found guilty of anti-competitive practices by Greeces anti-trustauthority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions\/7360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}