DB seeks estimated damages of 2.5 billion dollar in lawsuits against airlines
Mandag 1. december 2014 kl: 15:22
Af: EditorialDeutsche Bahn AG, the German railway company, announced monday that its logistics subsidiary, Schenker AG, will seek damages estimated at 2.5 billion dollar - approximately 370 million dollar in the U.S. and 2.19 billion dollar in Germany including interest - from air cargo carriers found guilty by the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission and other international authorities for operating a global price-fixing cartel. The U.S. portion could increase to an estimated 1.1 billion dollar if the court awards treble damages in the case
Schenker AG is the latest international freight forwarder to pursue civil litigation in an effort to recover significant damages from air cargo carriers that conspired to fix fuel and security surcharges from 1999 until 2006.
In August, Schenker filed a complaint against Air France, KLM, Martinair, Cargolux, Qantas, SAS and All Nippon Airways in the Eastern District of New York. The complaint alleges that, in coordinating surcharge pricing for shipments to, from and within the U.S., the airlines violated U.S. antitrust laws. All defendants named in the Schenker AG complaint pleaded guilty in Department of Justice proceedings.
The German lawsuit, filed in December 2013 in Cologne, alleges defendants Deutsche Lufthansa, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Swiss Airlines, Cargolux, SAS, Air Canada, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, LAN Airlines and Qantas were involved in the same conspiracy affecting airfreight shipments worldwide.
A number of air cargo carriers in the United States entered into settlement agreements both with class action plaintiffs and individual claimants in order to avoid protracted civil lawsuits. Schenker AG agreed to settlements with some carriers but opted out of the settlement agreements by the named defendants in connection with the
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