On Saturday, the Regional Administrative Court for Lazio upheld the appeal brought by Grimaldi Euromed and Grimaldi Group suspending until the Council Chamber on 19 December the execution of the acts of the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) with which they had been accepted, by resolving to make them binding, the commitments submitted by the company SAS Shipping Agency Services, Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) and Moby and with which the investigation had been closed of the Authority aimed at ascertaining the presence of restrictions of the caused by the acquisition of 49% of the capital of the Moby by SAS and the financing that SAS had granted to Moby ( of 24 October 2025). In addition, the TAR accepted the request for immediate suspension until the same date of the effectiveness of the sale of five Moby ships.

With reference to the recent sale by Moby of five ships, which would have been sold to the MSC group ( of 3 December 2025), the TAR noted that the applicant represented that the AGCM's provision of 22 October 2025 "produces immediate and irreversible effects on the market, since allows the transfer en bloc of five ro-ro/pax ships belonging to to Moby and CIN, launched in implementation of the commitments" and that "the applicants, operating in direct competition with the would suffer serious and irreparable harm if the sale was completed with the stipulation downstream of the award: the strategic assets of Moby and CIN would be transferred to persons potentially linked to MSC (group to which SAS, GNV and Moby, ed.) consolidating control economic impact on national transport markets maritime cargo and passenger transport; Capacity reduction of Moby and CIN would lead to an immediate rebalancing of the market at GNV, irreversibly distorting competition on the Naples-Palermo and Sardinia routes". In addition, the TAR took act that the applicant has, consequently, requested the suspension effectiveness "of the contested measure and inhibit, until the collegial decision, the stipulation and enforcement of the contracts for the sale of the assets awarded on 3 December 2025, in order to preserve the effectiveness of the protection jurisdictional and prevent the consolidation of a irreversible anti-competitive situation".