Italy’s Antitrust Authority has fined 15 shipping agents, as well as two trade associations, a total of €4 million for taking part in a cartel.

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.

The European Commission today announced it has launched an investigation of the marine insurance market, over concerns that certain agreements between an association of insurers and its members could be anti-competitive.