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    Container shipping surcharges back in fashion

    With freight rates extremely low, the shipping companies need surcharges to increase their revenues. The shipping companies are struggling at the moment to impose their general rate increases against a background of weak demand and a long-term surplus of shipping capacity. At the same time, the geop...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    November 03 2023
    6 min

    European road transport figures for 2022

    INFOGRAPHICS. The 2022 statistical review of road freight transport in Europe shows market stagnation. Discover 5 infographics to better understand the main developments. Road freight transport activity stagnated in the European Union in 2022, standing at 1,920 billion tonne-kilometres (btkm), accor...
    Anne Kerriou
    October 27 2023
    6 min

    Containers: the results of the main operators in H1 2023

    The financial results of shipping companies and freight forwarders in the first half of 2023 illustrate the brutality of the market turnaround. After reaching unprecedented levels, thanks to the vigorous post-Covid economic recovery, sea freight rates began to fall again from the summer of 2022, wit...
    Anne Kerriou
    October 24 2023
    2 min
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    End of shipping consortia in 2024: revolution or evolution?

    The block exemption regulation, from which shipping consortia have been benefiting, will end in April 2024, with, in its wake, some winners, some losers and some new forms of cooperation. The European Commission announced on 10 October that the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER), from which...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    October 19 2023
    6 min
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    France: road transport prices approach record highs in September

    BAROMETER. Despite a complicated economic situation, transport prices seem definitively to be heading towards the summits in September 2023. Soaring energy prices are driving inflation, as the sector faces government green planning. At the beginning of autumn, France finds itself in the internationa...
    William Béguerie
    October 17 2023
    3 min

    Air freight: August's slight growth is not a harbinger of improvement

    BAROMETER. The global air cargo market grew in August 2023, for the first time in 19 months. But this good news is not enough to predict a peak season worthy of the name. Global air cargo traffic totalled 20.7 billion tonne-kilometres in August 2023. A stable figure compared to the previous month, b...
    Anne Kerriou
    October 13 2023
    5 min
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    The level of ocean freight rates should be of concern to the market

    BAROMETER. Pending the gradual implementation of ETS surcharges, the collapse of prices is continuing in containerised maritime transport. Asia-North Europe spot freight rates are now below 4 digits. Reducing the number of ship departures in Asian ports has not been enough to halt the drop in freigh...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    October 10 2023
    2 min

    French road transport figures for 2022

    INFOGRAPHICS. French road transport turnover increased in 2022, but mainly as a result of rising costs. This has been confirmed in 2023, against a backdrop of a slowdown in volumes. Updated on 28 November 2023 During the FNTR (National Federation of Road Transport) congress, on 22 September, the Ban...
    Anne Kerriou
    October 06 2023
    6 min

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