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    Jérôme de Ricqlès

    Expert in Ocean shipping for 25 years, Jerome puts all his knowledge of the industry to contribution for Upply. Ship captain at heart, he has written the English-French Lexicon of Containerized Shipping (Paris: CELSE, 2001).

    How relevant would be a two-tier container services network?

    Current trade tensions represent an opportunity to rethink the organisation of container shipping services out of Asia. We have opted to look at the possibility of organising a hybrid shipping service network. The period of great global instability we are currently going through raises questions abo...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 30 2025
    7 min
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    Containers: American announcements are alarming the market  

    BAROMETER. The prospect of a “double penalty”, namely increased tariffs and taxation of Chinese ships and operators in the United States, plunges the markets for freight rates into an erratic and hesitant state. While the reopening of the Red Sea appears to be a White House priority, the new global ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 09 2025
    4 min

    Shipping company profitability in 2025

    After unhoped for profits for the shipping companies in 2024, 2025 promises to be more difficult. Will the shipping companies make money this year? Every year for five years, Upply has tried to forecast whether or not the shipping companies would be profitable. Until now, our predictions have tended...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 31 2025
    6 min

    Containers: how to manage the return of refused goods

    The rapid, wide-ranging introduction of additional customs tariffs could encourage some importers to refuse goods and ask for them to be returned. This could be a real challenge for the shipping companies. In shipping company jargon, "return cargo" refers to cargo which needs to be returned to its s...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 26 2025
    3 min
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    Ocean freight rates maintained by precautionary demand

    BAROMETER. After suffering a fall in January, ocean freight rates stabilised in February, as demand was maintained by fears of additional customs tariffs in the United States. Major developments Suez Canal the key issue in 2025 After Maersk's publication of sparkling 2024 financial results, chief ex...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 12 2025
    4 min

    Containerised Transport: The 5 Highlights from TPM 2025

    Our maritime expert was in Long Beach for the TPM trade show, dedicated to the containerised maritime transport industry. Here is an initial snapshot on the emerging topics in the context of today's rather turbulent news. For its silver jubilee, the 2025 edition of TPM in Long Beach lived up to expe...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 11 2025
    6 min
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    January freight rates start to stall

    BAROMETER. Ocean freight rates started to fall on most major routes in January, as the Chinese New Year approached. The new shipping alliances will come into operation in a difficult environment. From November to mid-January, the shipping companies made use of a strategy which worked well for their ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 13 2025
    3 min

    PIL and Wan Hai knock on the door of the container shipping Top 10

    PIL and Wan Hai represent only a modest share of capacity on the container shipping market. They are only just behind the Top 10, however, and have a real desire to join them. "Third party feeders" is the term used by the big Top 10 container shipping companies to refer to the smaller operators they...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 04 2025
    6 min

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