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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).

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Jerome de Ricqles
December 04 2020
5 min

The regulation of container shipping in Europe

Unlike their Chinese and American counterparts, the European competition authorities generally keep out of the commercial problems of the container shipping business. It is time no doubt to change this for the benefit of European Union trade. In China and the United States, the authorities responsib...
Jerome de Ricqles
October 29 2020
4 min

Cyber-attacks: the transport and logistics sector in the firing line

In the transport and logistics sector, the list of companies which have fallen victim to cyber-attacks in the form of "ransomwares" is sadly getting longer by the day. Companies have nevertheless made considerable progress in deal with this kind of incident. In 2017, a worldwide cyber-attack targete...
Jerome de Ricqles
October 20 2020
3 min

Antwerp/New York: slight erosion of freight rates over last 3 months

Upply’s data show a slight erosion of ocean freight rates on the Antwerp/New York, despite efficient capacity control. In the Transatlantic sector, the shipping companies have traditionally deployed small capacity vessels, generally ranging from 6,000 TEU to 8,000 TEU, which enables them to manage t...
Jerome de Ricqles
October 12 2020
2 min

Tokyo-Southampton freight rates: a slight downward trend

Following the conclusion of a first significant pre-Brexit bilateral agreement between Britain and Japan, we look this week at the freight rate trend on the Tokyo-Southampton line. With freight rates steady at a high level, although slightly down these last weeks, our Upply data for 40' containers t...
Jerome de Ricqles
September 25 2020
2 min

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

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