Monopoly Case Gives Australian Port Operator Win

Containers are loaded onto cargo ships at Port Botany in Sydney, Australia, on June 4, 2021. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images

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.