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    Spot and contract rate gap starts to close

    BAROMETER. Attacks in the Red Sea are continuing to disrupt shipping activities, but spot rates are stationary. On the other hand, an increase in shipping company break-even levels, is impacting the contract market. When the shipping companies began to reroute in number round the Cape of Good Hope t...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 13 2024
    2 min

    Economic prospects: a recovery under pressure

    Growth forecasts for 2024 and 2025 suggest a slight improvement in the global economy. But performance remains below that of the pre-pandemic period and geopolitical tensions are not weakening. After the strong post-pandemic rebound, the global economy experienced a sharp slowdown in growth in 2022 ...
    Anne Kerriou
    September 10 2024
    8 min

    Shipping companies stay in profit

    Continuing disruption in the Red Sea has forced the shipping companies operating on Asia-Europe routes to revise upwards their break-even levels. The Cape of Good Hope shipping route between Asia and Europe has finally become a long-term fixture. The regular line shipping companies have now been usi...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 06 2024
    4 min
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    Trade: China’s Bumpy Road to the Global South

    China's trade with the Global South is growing significantly, driven on the one hand by the China Plus One strategy and on the other by the development of new markets. But many challenges remain. The need for China to expand its economic presence in the Global South has never been greater, amid the ...
    Ganyi Zhang
    September 03 2024
    9 min

    Spain: port and air cargo traffic in 2023

    In 2023, port and air traffic evolved contradictorily in Spain: a decline for the first and a sharp increase for the second. These changes are primarily a reflection of the evolution of the global economy, which has impacted the two modes in different ways. The evolution of port and air traffic in 2...
    Daniel Solano
    August 29 2024
    4 min

    The development of China-EU rail freight in the first half of 2024

    Amid the disruption of ocean freight, the China-EU Rail Freight experienced a solid but asymmetrical growth in the first half of 2024. After a bleak 2023, rail freight volumes between China and Europe on the main Eurasian corridor (known as the Main Route) rebounded by 120% year-on-year in the first...
    Ganyi Zhang
    August 27 2024
    5 min

    Air freight: a very dynamic first half of 2024

    BAROMETER. The month of June confirmed the boom in air freight. Volume growth stands at 13.4% Y-o-Y for the whole of the first half of 2024, and the drop in freight rates is slowing down. 1/ The evolution of supply and demand Traffic June 2024 In June, global air cargo traffic grew 14.1% year-on-yea...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 19 2024
    5 min

    European road transport: the spot market is recovering a little

    Road freight transport prices in Europe increased by 0.8% Y-o-Y during Q2 2024, after 6 months of decline. The contract market remains on a downward trend. The second quarter of 2024 brought a slight glimmer of hope to the European road transport sector. Thanks to a slightly less negative economic e...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 14 2024
    4 min

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