{"id":10122,"date":"2025-12-11T06:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:54:24","slug":"bruselas-alberga-dudas-sobre-la-entrada-de-msc-en-la-terminal-de-hutchison-en-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/bruselas-alberga-dudas-sobre-la-entrada-de-msc-en-la-terminal-de-hutchison-en-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruselas\u00a0alberga\u00a0dudas\u00a0sobre la entrada de MSC en la terminal de\u00a0Hutchison\u00a0en Barcelona\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La UE&nbsp;lanza&nbsp;una&nbsp;investigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;en&nbsp;profundidad&nbsp;para evitar que el desembarco del armador&nbsp;derive&nbsp;en&nbsp;competencia&nbsp;desleal&nbsp;para el resto&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-6-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-6-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-6-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-6-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image-6.png 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>O.M.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>El Mercantil<\/strong>&nbsp;Barcelona&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 de&nbsp;diciembre&nbsp;de 2025&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La&nbsp;Comisi\u00f3n&nbsp;Europea ha&nbsp;decidido&nbsp;abrir&nbsp;una \u201cinvestigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;en&nbsp;profundidad\u201d sobre la entrada de MSC en la&nbsp;gesti\u00f3n&nbsp;de la terminal BEST (Hutchison&nbsp;Ports) del&nbsp;puerto&nbsp;de Barcelona.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elmercantil.com\/2024\/07\/16\/msc-y-hutchison-sellan-el-acuerdo-para-el-desembarco-del-armador-en-best\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">El armador \u00edtalo-suizo y Hutchison hab\u00edan llegado a un acuerdo, en 2024<\/a>, para controlar al 50% la principal&nbsp;instalaci\u00f3n&nbsp;de&nbsp;contenedores&nbsp;del&nbsp;recinto&nbsp;catal\u00e1n,&nbsp;pero&nbsp;Bruselas&nbsp;alberga \u201cdudas&nbsp;preliminares\u201d&nbsp;acerca&nbsp;del&nbsp;efecto&nbsp;que&nbsp;ello&nbsp;tendr\u00e1&nbsp;en la&nbsp;competencia. En&nbsp;esencia, se&nbsp;quiere&nbsp;descartar que el&nbsp;nuevo&nbsp;operador conjunto&nbsp;ofrezca&nbsp;un&nbsp;trato&nbsp;privilegiado&nbsp;a MSC por encima de&nbsp;otros&nbsp;armadores,&nbsp;se\u00f1ala&nbsp;el&nbsp;Ejecutivo&nbsp;comunitario&nbsp;en un&nbsp;comunicado.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La&nbsp;Comisi\u00f3n&nbsp;Europea&nbsp;recuerda&nbsp;que la gran&nbsp;mayor\u00eda&nbsp;de fusiones no&nbsp;implican&nbsp;una&nbsp;investigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;a fondo&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ello&nbsp;significa que el&nbsp;acuerdo&nbsp;queda&nbsp;bloqueado&nbsp;hasta, como&nbsp;tarde, abril de 2026,&nbsp;ya&nbsp;que el&nbsp;organismo&nbsp;regulador de&nbsp;Bruselas&nbsp;dispone&nbsp;de 90&nbsp;d\u00edas&nbsp;para&nbsp;realizar&nbsp;la&nbsp;investigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;y&nbsp;emitir&nbsp;un&nbsp;veredicto. Por el&nbsp;momento, la&nbsp;Comisi\u00f3n&nbsp;Europea confirma que la \u201cinvestigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;preliminar\u201d que&nbsp;hab\u00eda&nbsp;llevado&nbsp;a cabo&nbsp;hasta&nbsp;ahora&nbsp;\u201cindica que la&nbsp;fusi\u00f3n&nbsp;podr\u00eda&nbsp;reducir&nbsp;significativamente&nbsp;la&nbsp;competencia&nbsp;en la&nbsp;provisi\u00f3n&nbsp;de&nbsp;servicios&nbsp;de&nbsp;contenedor&nbsp;en Barcelona\u201d,&nbsp;derivando&nbsp;en \u201cprecios&nbsp;m\u00e1s&nbsp;altos\u201d y \u201cpeor&nbsp;servicio\u201d para las&nbsp;navieras&nbsp;que&nbsp;compiten&nbsp;con MSC en el&nbsp;puerto&nbsp;catal\u00e1n.&nbsp;Tambi\u00e9n&nbsp;sospecha&nbsp;que la&nbsp;fusi\u00f3n&nbsp;podr\u00eda&nbsp;retrasar&nbsp;los&nbsp;accesos&nbsp;de los&nbsp;buques&nbsp;rivales&nbsp;a la terminal,&nbsp;ceder&nbsp;menos&nbsp;espacio&nbsp;de&nbsp;almacenamiento&nbsp;a las&nbsp;compa\u00f1\u00edas&nbsp;que no son MSC o&nbsp;incluso&nbsp;reducir&nbsp;su&nbsp;disponibilidad&nbsp;a la hora de usar&nbsp;gr\u00faas&nbsp;portuarias.&nbsp;Adem\u00e1s, apunta a que \u201cla&nbsp;opci\u00f3n&nbsp;de&nbsp;recurrir&nbsp;a la&nbsp;otra&nbsp;terminal de&nbsp;contenedores&nbsp;deep-sea&nbsp;de Barcelona\u201d, la que opera APM Terminals, \u201ces limitada\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En&nbsp;su&nbsp;comunicado,&nbsp;Bruselas&nbsp;recuerda&nbsp;que&nbsp;tiene&nbsp;\u201cla&nbsp;obligaci\u00f3n&nbsp;de supervisar las fusiones y&nbsp;adquisiciones&nbsp;que&nbsp;involucran&nbsp;a&nbsp;empresas&nbsp;con una&nbsp;cifra&nbsp;de negocio superior a&nbsp;ciertos&nbsp;m\u00e1rgenes\u201d y de \u201cevitar&nbsp;concentraciones&nbsp;que&nbsp;impidan&nbsp;significativamente&nbsp;la&nbsp;libre&nbsp;competencia\u201d.&nbsp;Asimismo, \u201cla&nbsp;mayor\u00eda&nbsp;de fusiones no&nbsp;generan&nbsp;estas&nbsp;preocupaciones&nbsp;y se&nbsp;autorizan&nbsp;en la primera fase\u201d,&nbsp;pero&nbsp;\u00e9ste&nbsp;no ha&nbsp;sido&nbsp;el caso de la&nbsp;operaci\u00f3n&nbsp;entre MSC y&nbsp;Hutchison.&nbsp;Aun&nbsp;as\u00ed, la&nbsp;Comisi\u00f3n&nbsp;Europea ha&nbsp;dejado&nbsp;claro&nbsp;que la apertura de una&nbsp;investigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;a fondo no&nbsp;presupone&nbsp;un&nbsp;resultado&nbsp;negativo para la&nbsp;fusi\u00f3n. Justo en&nbsp;junio&nbsp;de este&nbsp;a\u00f1o, el&nbsp;puerto&nbsp;de Barcelona&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/elmercantil.com\/2025\/06\/25\/el-puerto-de-barcelona-da-luz-verde-a-la-entrada-de-msc-en-la-terminal-best\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dio su visto bueno a la operaci\u00f3n<\/a>,&nbsp;se\u00f1alando&nbsp;que&nbsp;podr\u00eda&nbsp;ser un&nbsp;veh\u00edculo&nbsp;para incrementar la&nbsp;conectividad&nbsp;mar\u00edtima de la rada.&nbsp;Bruselas&nbsp;recibi\u00f3&nbsp;la&nbsp;notificaci\u00f3n&nbsp;el&nbsp;pasado&nbsp;mes de&nbsp;noviembre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La UE&nbsp;lanza&nbsp;una&nbsp;investigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;en&nbsp;profundidad&nbsp;para evitar que el desembarco del armador&nbsp;derive&nbsp;en&nbsp;competencia&nbsp;desleal&nbsp;para el resto&nbsp; O.M.&nbsp; El Mercantil&nbsp;Barcelona&nbsp; 10 de&nbsp;diciembre&nbsp;de 2025&nbsp; La&nbsp;Comisi\u00f3n&nbsp;Europea ha&nbsp;decidido&nbsp;abrir&nbsp;una \u201cinvestigaci\u00f3n&nbsp;en&nbsp;profundidad\u201d sobre la entrada de MSC en la&nbsp;gesti\u00f3n&nbsp;de la terminal BEST (Hutchison&nbsp;Ports) del&nbsp;puerto&nbsp;de Barcelona.&nbsp;El armador \u00edtalo-suizo y Hutchison hab\u00edan llegado a un acuerdo, en 2024, para controlar al 50% la principal&nbsp;instalaci\u00f3n&nbsp;de&nbsp;contenedores&nbsp;del&nbsp;recinto&nbsp;catal\u00e1n,&nbsp;pero&nbsp;Bruselas&nbsp;alberga \u201cdudas&nbsp;preliminares\u201d&nbsp;acerca&nbsp;del&nbsp;efecto&nbsp;que&nbsp;ello&nbsp;tendr\u00e1&nbsp;en la&nbsp;competencia. En&nbsp;esencia, se&nbsp;quiere&nbsp;descartar que el&nbsp;nuevo&nbsp;operador &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/bruselas-alberga-dudas-sobre-la-entrada-de-msc-en-la-terminal-de-hutchison-en-barcelona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abBruselas\u00a0alberga\u00a0dudas\u00a0sobre la entrada de MSC en la terminal de\u00a0Hutchison\u00a0en Barcelona\u00a0\u00ab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias-locales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oepb.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}