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    The outlook for European road transport in 2025

    European road transport is expected to experience a slight recovery in 2025, following a notable slowdown over the past 2 years. However, economic stagnation, particularly in Germany, will limit investment growth. Cost control remains essential and the need for greening is increasing. An ideal situa...
    William Béguerie
    January 16 2025
    4 min
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    Ocean freight rates heat up a little in December

    BAROMETER. The month of December has brought an end to a year which turned out more favourably than expected for container shipping operators. It brought handsome bonuses for the shipping companies and the big forwarders, even though their financial performance was more the result of geopolitical te...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    January 14 2025
    2 min

    Economy: key developments to remember in 2024

    In 2024, bringing inflation under control was not enough to fully restore confidence, particularly in Europe, where weak demand weighed on road transport prices. Sea and air freight rates have held up better, under the influence of geopolitical factors that are shaking up the supply and demand logic...
    Anne Kerriou
    January 09 2025
    12 min
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    Our three scenarios for the container shipping sector in 2025

    Shipping companies are undeniably facing an increase in operating costs, but massive overcapacity and intense competition are going to make it difficult for them to pass on these additional costs through higher freight rates. Our annual forecasting exercise is once again taking place in a highly unc...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    January 07 2025
    7 min
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    French market: road transport prices rise in November

    BAROMETER. Against all expectations, road transport prices rose again in November. They benefited from the rise in fuel prices and an increase in contract prices in France. France continues to go through a turbulent political period. In November, the main objective of the then Prime Minister, Michel...
    William Béguerie
    December 18 2024
    2 min

    Container shipping in 2024

    2024 has been marked by disruption in the Red Sea, which, ironically, has rescued the financial results of the shipping companies but hampered their efforts to improve their environmental balance sheets. Let us look at the year by highlighting 10 key phenomena. The year 2024 promised nothing good fo...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 17 2024
    4 min

    2024 review of road transport in Europe

    Demand for road transport remains weak, in a gloomy context for the European economy. This situation is pushing prices down and penalising the profit margins of carriers, whose costs are ever-increasing. This disastrous equation complicates decarbonisation efforts. 1. A struggling European economy E...
    William Béguerie
    December 13 2024
    11 min
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    Container shipping companies obtain some end-of-year respite

    BAROMETER. The prospect of an increase in customs duties is currently pushing freight rates up on lines serving the United States. On Asia-Europe routes, however, the market fundamentals remain worrying. The overriding feeling in November is that the container shipping market is once again marked by...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 11 2024
    3 min

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