Brazil’s Secretariat of Economic Law (SDE) says that members of two truck transportation associations operating out of the country’s largest port may have used acts of violence – including on at least one occasion throwing Molotov cocktails at rivals – as a way to enforce a cartel for fertiliser shipments.

Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission has fined five trucking companies upwards of US$2 million for allegedly colluding to raise prices to their customers to make up for increases in fuel costs.