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Senate Judiciary Chair urges Justice Department to investigate DHL antitrust concerns
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., late Thursday, Sept. 17, signed onto a letter with Sen. Sherrod Brown urging the Department of Justice to look into a proposal that would allow United Parcel Service to become the exclusive airlift service for DHL’s North American operations for the next decade.
“Should this agreement be consummated, it appears that DHL would effectively cease to be a competitor to UPS, and instead would become a captive customer,” Leahy and Brown wrote in a letter to Department of Justice Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett. “In short, many of the concerns about a merger by which the number of genuine competitors in the marketplace would be reduced from three to two are also present in this situation.”
Leahy and Brown also expressed worry about the impact of the proposal on ABX Air and ASTAR, which currently provide overnight services for DHL.
The letter comes after two House committees have held hearings on the proposal. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee had a hearing on it earlier this week.
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