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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

The coronavirus crisis continues to weigh heavily on the recovery

The coronavirus crisis with its generalized and planetary lockdown measures has generated the deepest recession since World War II. Signs of recovery are appearing, even if the forecasts made by international organizations remain pessimistic. Ultimately though, this crisis could be a tremendous acce...
David Thebault
September 02 2020
5 min
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July 2020: road transportation prices recover

Road transportation prices on the French market rebounded slightly by 0.7% in July compared to June according to our monthly Upply barometer. This puts an end to a continuous fall in prices in France for 7 months, but it is not enough to get the transportation sector out of the serious crisis it is ...
William Beguerie
August 27 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

The digital ecosystem is shaking up transport business models

The various supply chain organizational models resulting from digital transformation, deal little with the case of carriers, who are ignored or even suspected of resistance to change. Let us review the changes taking place and highlight the initiatives at work in this sector that is in fact more mod...
William Beguerie
August 21 2020
9 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

Reshoring or Diversification: the possible options for European manufacturers

The Covid-19 pandemic gives a fresh impetus to an idea which has already been floated around the table by the global supply chain’s stakeholders: relocation from China. The economic arguments are now joined by political considerations. The pandemic has meant that relocation from China has come to th...
Ganyi Zhang
August 14 2020
7 min

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