Private-owned port operator NSW Ports has won an appeal case in which it was accused of monopolising container port services in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW).
The case was first brought by the Australian Competition Consumer Commission (ACCC) in 2018 when the competition authority alleged the firm violated competition laws when it entered into three 50-year agreements with the NSW government a few years earlier.
Two of the agreements were related to the privatisation of the firm’s subsidiaries in Port Botany and Port Kembla in May 2013, while the third was linked to the privatisation of the Port of Newcastle in May 2014….
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