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    Europe: the rise in road transport prices comes to an end

    The increase in road freight transport prices in Europe showed signs of slowing down in the 4th quarter of 2022. However, a sharp drop is not envisaged for 2023. The Ti/Upply/IRU European road transport price index for the 4th quarter of 2022 shows that the market is beginning to feel the impact of ...
    Anne Kerriou
    February 22 2023
    3 min

    China-EU rail freight: a highly sensitive market

    China-EU rail freight via the Northern Corridor has seen a 34% drop in volumes shipped in 2022, due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and an increase in maritime competitiveness. Some markets are nevertheless promising. 2022 was undoubtedly a challenging year for China-EU rail freight. The Russia-Uk...
    Ganyi Zhang
    February 21 2023
    10 min

    Air freight enters a delicate period

    REVIEW. Global air freight volumes dropped below their pre-pandemic levels in 2022 to 250.2 billion tonne-kilometres. Freight rates held up well but 2023 looks set to be a difficult year. The party looks to be well and truly over in the air freight sector, just as it is in the container shipping sec...
    Anne Kerriou
    February 17 2023
    3 min
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    Transport prices in France fall again in January  

    BAROMETER. Road transport prices in France slowed down in January 2023, as in the previous month, according to the Upply Freight Index. Inflation, economic depression and social protest are the ingredients of the bitter cocktail of this beginning of the year. According to the World Bank's latest Eco...
    William Béguerie
    February 15 2023
    2 min

    Economic Outlook: Gloomy indicators for the start of 2023

    The slowdown in global growth is expected to worsen in 2023. A trend that will reflect on the trajectory of international merchandise trade whose growth will fall below 2%. Soaring transport prices are over. In 2022, all of the world's major economies were hit by a slowdown, after the rebound of 202...
    Anne Kerriou
    February 10 2023
    9 min
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    Ocean freight rates stop falling in January

    BAROMETER. Ocean freight rates seem finally to be stabilising after plunging steadily over the last six months, but only thanks to wide-ranging cancellations of port calls. The first half of 2023 looks likely to be complicated for the shipping companies, as their weekly financial results collapse un...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 07 2023
    1 min

    Trends in heavy goods vehicle registrations in 2022

    INFOGRAPHICS. Registrations of medium and heavy commercial vehicles (+3.5 T) increased by +3.5% in the European Union in 2022. Germany and France continue to lose ground. 1/European market Vehicles over 3.5 t Registrations of vehicles over 3.5 tonnes in the European Union increased by 3.5% in 2022 c...
    Anne Kerriou
    February 02 2023
    4 min

    Container shipping companies start to personalise their liner terms

    Container shipping companies' conditions of sale are becoming increasingly personalised, a process favoured by digitalisation. In August 2020, Upply took you into container shipping's backroom in an article explaining shipping companies' general conditions of sale. Since then, the container sector h...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    January 31 2023
    7 min

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