Competition record
Manuli
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Manuli is a hose specialist. The European Commission fined it in a marine-hose cartel with Bridgestone and Parker-Hannifin over hose used to load oil.
Overview
Manuli makes industrial hose. The product in the cartel is marine hose, the heavy flexible line that connects an oil tanker to a terminal so crude or chemicals can move ashore. Each job is specified for the berth, the cargo, and the pressure. Buyers are oil companies and port operators, and only a few firms can build the hose.
The Commission fined Manuli, Bridgestone, and Parker-Hannifin for colluding on that business. A specialist hose maker lives or dies on those tenders. A diversified manufacturer can treat the same hose as one line in a catalog. Manuli is the specialist.
This profile states no euro total and no Manuli-only fine. The library status is fined. The harm sits in the loading equipment a terminal buys, then recovers through the cost of moving oil.
Competition footprint
Marine hose is a niche industrial product with a short list of qualified suppliers.
Oil-loading contracts are project bids, so a pre-agreed winner shows up as a set of matching quotes.
Manuli's exposure is the hose itself, rather than a side business inside a larger group.
Consumer & business angle
Terminal operators and oil majors were the direct buyers. They specify hose the way they specify any other piece of berth equipment.
The cost of loading equipment is a small line on a large cargo movement, which is why a niche cartel can sit unnoticed for years.
What to watch
- Procurement files on oil-loading hose that still get compared with the Commission decision.
- How a specialist supplier's compliance program treats a tender where the competitors are few enough to know one another.
Markets
marine hose · oil-loading equipment · marine hoses · oil terminal equipment
Also known as: manuli rubber, manuli hydraulics