Regulator chair Rod Sims has called on governments to give the regulator authority to intervene in pricing disputes at Australia’s ports as tensions escalate between stevedores and the Port of Melbourne over a proposed 800 per cent rent increase.
Mr Sims, who chairs the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, met with DP World Australia’s chief executive, Paul Scurrah, on Friday to discuss the possibility of ports being regulated under the National Access Regime.
This would make it more difficult for port owners to discriminate against competitors if they owned a stevedore or shipping company.
It would also give users of port infrastructure the rights to appeal to regulators if they have pricing disputes.
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