Competition authorities, in order to protect customers’ interests and to guarantee a fair
market operation, need to get first-hand information from suppliers but also to cross check
such information by receiving some of the data collected from customers. This will allow
them to properly assess whether and how alliances are effectively contributing to an
increased quality of services, to a sustainable container transport sector and improvement of the global logistics performance.
Customers through their national, continental or global associations could provide such
information to competition authorities through regular meetings and communication of
facts based analyses.