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Jerome de Ricqles

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 to ensure your containers are loaded aboard ship
Jerome de Ricqles
September 18 2020
3 min

Shanghai-Antwerp: ocean freight rates are stabilizing

Ocean freight rates between Asia and Europe have been stabilizing since the start of the summer but remain at high levels. This situation should last, even though new capacity will slightly relieve the pressure on space aboard ship. The excess heat is coming out of the market… After a limited downwa...
Jerome de Ricqles
September 07 2020
2 min

Containers: shipping lines no longer ''regular''

Regularity of service has for long been one of the fundamental features of container shipping. Today, however, companies are tending to move away from this historic model in favour of a hybrid range of services. A striking feature of recent years has been the fact that regular line shipping companie...
Jerome de Ricqles
September 04 2020
3 min

Connecting Liner Terms with Incoterms®

In this second article about Liner Terms, Upply proposes an exploration of the reasons for aligning these general sale conditions used by shipping companies with Incoterms®. The aim is to make the cost sharing boundaries more tangible and, as far as possible, concurrent. Aligning Liner Terms with In...
Jerome de Ricqles
August 24 2020
4 min

Liner Terms: understanding shipping companies' rate offers

Upply takes you into the technical side of container shipping with this update on liner terms. This week, we look at the different options proposed by the shipping companies before discussing next week the relationship between liner terms and incoterms®, which are together essential to international...
Jerome de Ricqles
August 19 2020
5 min

Ningbo-Le Havre : ocean freight rates stabilise at a high level

The increase in freight rates in this segment of the Asia-Europe trades is tending to level off. Prices are stabilising at around the median rates recorded in mid-July last year. Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, the shipping companies have been managing their capacity very closely. This ha...
Jerome de Ricqles
July 20 2020
2 min

Container shipping: why freight rates are holding up

Nothing seems able to disturb the tight capacity control strategy which has been exercised by the top ten shipping companies since the Chinese New Year on east-west trade routes. As a result, freight rates are holding up at high levels despite the fall in global demand. It has taken the Covid-19 epi...
Jerome de Ricqles
July 15 2020
4 min

Digitalisation in container shipping

Port Community Systems have become an essential tool for the exchange of information in the container shipping sector. Their role in the management of key data means, however, that particular attention needs to be paid to their governance. Over the last 20 years, the world's major cargo ports have i...
Jerome de Ricqles
July 10 2020
5 min

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