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Australian crane-hire companies face legal action over cartel conduct

( September 3, 2025, 01:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Australian competition regulator has filed civil proceedings against four mobile crane-hire companies and four senior executives over cartel conduct including price-fixing attempts. In a statement today, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission said that the four companies allegedly arranged not to supply services to certain customers and two of the four companies also attempted to fix prices. The statement said that they used chat-app WhatsApp to identify “certain building sites or customers and make arrangements between themselves that some or all of these companies would not supply cranes to these sites or customers” on a number of occasions between 2020 and 2024. The four Sydney-based companies include Borger Crane Hire & Rigging Services, MCR Melrose, Two Way Cranes and Ultra-Lift Cranes.The full statement by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission follows:...

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