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    European road freight: general price decline in Q1 2025

    Road freight transport prices in Europe showed a quarter-on-quarter decrease in the first quarter of 2025, both on the contract market and the spot market. Once the effects of the end-of-year peak season had passed, the European road freight transport market began to decline again. In the first quar...
    Anne Kerriou
    May 28 2025
    3 min

    The different strategies behind container service blank sailings

    The shipping companies have learned to use sailing cancellations for both defensive and offensive purposes. The position in the current first half of 2025 pleads in favour of a defensive approach. According to Upply's shipping expert, Jérôme de Ricqlès, a distinction needs to be made between blank s...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    May 26 2025
    4 min
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    French road transport prices and business climate remain in decline

    BAROMETER. Road transport prices continued to fall in April, driven by the drop in oil prices. The decline in volumes is worrying in the longer term, as any reversal in energy prices would generate a cataclysm for carriers. French economic activity grew by only 0.1% in the first quarter of 2025, acc...
    William Béguerie
    May 23 2025
    3 min
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    Post-Brexit erosion of traffic through British ports

    SPECIAL FEATURE 5/5. British ports handled 422.8 million tonnes of goods in 2024. As such the British port industry is among the most important in Europe, but it has lost ground since Brexit. The United Kingdom has 51 major ports, stretching from Dover in the southeast of the country to Belfast in N...
    Hervé Deiss
    May 21 2025
    7 min
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    Container freight rate fall-off remained limited in April

    BAROMETER. Overall, the container shipping market kept a relatively cool head in April, thanks, notably, to China's carefully measured response to the trade war started by Donald Trump. Main developments Tariff debate focuses on China-US relations US president Donald Trump has monopolised media atte...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    May 16 2025
    3 min

    Tariff war boosts March air freight traffic

    Global air freight traffic registered a surprising 4.4% year-on-year increase in March, probably due to early ordering to beat the introduction of trade tariffs. As a result, transport prices increased on certain trade routes. 1/ Supply and demand Traffic in March 2025 By provoking a drive to stock ...
    Anne Kerriou
    May 14 2025
    5 min

    Cross-Channel: supply partly redesigned by Brexit

    SPECIAL FEATURE 4/5. The number of connections between the European continent and the United Kingdom remains stable. But operators have developed direct links between the continent and Ireland to avoid the UK Land Bridge. On the range of continental ports from Rotterdam to Roscoff, we have listed 38...
    Hervé Deiss
    May 07 2025
    9 min

    The UK remains an attractive market for road transport

    SPECIAL FEATURE 3/5. As elsewhere in Europe, road transport plays a major role in the movement of goods in the United Kingdom. The size of the British economy makes it an attractive market, even if the last two years have been difficult. In 2019, the last full year before Brexit came into effect, th...
    Anne Kerriou
    May 02 2025
    9 min

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