Air Cargo Raid
As the AntitrustProf Blog notes, ealier today EU and DOJ raided several airlines both here and in Europe as part of an investigation into possible fixing of cargo prices. Reuters article about this here. The article mentions that several other airlines were also asked for information. According to this Reuters article - which oddly does not mention these raids - United Parcel Service was informally asked for information. According to the article “‘UPS understands it is not part of the probe,’ UPS spokesman Norman Black said. ‘As is its practice, UPS will cooperate with requests from government agencies.’”
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February 16th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
[…] Yesterday I blogged about the EU/DOJ raids as part of an investigation into possible fixing of air cargo prices and the request for information recieved by UPS. Today, Virgin Atlantic Airways said that its US arm has also recieved a request for information. You can also bookmark this on del.icio.us or check the cosmos […]
June 14th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
[…] Back in February, the EU and DOJ conducted joint raids as part of an investigation into possible fixing of air cargo prices. The investigation appears to be continuing as Air Canada has announced that they are providing information to DOJ. According to Reuters: Air Canada said that when the joint U.S. Department of Justice-European Commission probe first started in February, “neither authority visited Air Canada or any of its cargo operations.” […]