(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 18 - The Competition and Market
(antitrust) Authority has opened an investigation into Shipping
Agencies Services (SAS), a company in the MSC cruise group, and
ferry companies Moby and Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) to verify the
existence of possible restrictions on competition following the
acquisition of 49% of Moby's share capital by SAS and the
subsequent large financing granted by the latter to Moby, the
antitrust office said Monday.
On 13 November, the Authority, with the Special Antitrust Unit
of the Guardia di Finanza tax police, carried out inspections at
the premises of Moby and Grandi Navi Veloci, Onorato Armatori
and Marinvest, the office said. (ANSA).