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Europe: rise in road transportation prices in Q1 2021

The average rate for road freight transportation in Europe are growing in the 1st quarter of 2021, both year on year and quarterly, despite the 3rd wave of Covid-19. After a slight decline in the 4th quarter of 2020, the average road freight rate in Europe is on the rise again. According to the late...
Anne Kerriou -
May 27 2021
3 min

France: A new legal framework for digital freight platforms

The new French law on mobility has changed the legal framework for freight exchanges and digital marketplaces. Update on the main changes with Claire Couvreur, Head of Legal and Compliance at Upply. 1/ The Mobility Orientation Law (LOM) provides for a framework for the activity of digital platforms ...
Claire Couvreur
May 25 2021
3 min

The rise in ocean freight rates goes global

The rise in freight rates is continuing and is now affecting virtually all maritime trade routes. Demand, meanwhile, is showing no sign of weakening. After the main East-West markets, the North-South and cross-trade markets are now experiencing a significant increase in freight rates. Only on the ea...
Jerome de Ricqles
May 18 2021
2 min
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Air freight in top form in March 2021

Demand for air freight reached its highest ever level in March. Cargo volumes exceeded pre-Covid levels and prices continued to show favorable growth. For the second consecutive month, global air freight volumes, measured in tonne-kilometres, exceeded pre crisis levels. In March 2021, growth was up ...
Anne Kerriou -
May 17 2021
5 min

Road transportation prices start to rise again in April

Road transportation prices resumed their rise in France in April 2021, according to our Upply barometer. The sector is also marked by an acceleration in external growth operations. In April 2021, France experienced its third lockdown since the beginning of the pandemic. The restrictive measures were...
William Beguerie
May 12 2021
2 min

EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement: a promising start

The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) entered into force on August 1st, 2020. An opportunity to examine the initial impacts and to analyze the prospects for the future. As the most ambitious FTA (free trade agreement) the EU has ever signed with a developing country, the EU-Vietnam Free Trade ...
Ganyi Zhang
May 11 2021
9 min

Port terminals under pressure

Industrial relations are becoming increasingly strained in port terminals, which are being hit hard by the current disorganisation of the shipping lines. This poses a risk which the shipping companies should not take lightly. Container terminals need visibility to be able to plan their work and pers...
Jerome de Ricqles
May 04 2021
2 min

Air and ocean freight rates in an inflationary environment

Air and ocean freight rates remain at high levels, in an inflationary economic context.  The health crisis plunged most industrialised countries into a major economic recession. A vigorous but asymmetric recovery is in sight in the second quarter of 2021, driven by improved confidence among economic...
David Thebault
April 30 2021
2 min

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