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Vietnam-China: freight rates have increased slightly in recent weeks

Let's have a look this week at ocean freight rates between Ho Chi Minh City and Hong Kong. Our data base at Upply shows that there has been a slight increase in recent weeks in rates for 40' high cube containers. In Europe, this intra-Asian route is often viewed in terms of Chinese exports to Vietna...
Jerome de Ricqles
November 13 2019
2 min

Road transport market: a cold snap in October

The road transport market in France is trending downwards in October, with prices down by 1.15% compared to September. In this France's transport sector is mirroring the changing business climate, which has lost 0.8 point in one month. It was to be expected, sluggishness has taken over France's tran...
William Beguerie
November 12 2019
3 min

INCOTERMS® 2020: evolution rather than revolution

The 2020 Incoterms®, which were unveiled in September 2019 by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), bring considerable changes which reflect new commercial and freight transport practices. There are still 11 Incoterms®, relating to places which must be designated as exactly as possible, but w...
Jerome de Ricqles
November 05 2019
5 min
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An overview of the US tariff on 7.5 billion USDs-worth of EU goods

On Oct. 18, the US imposed a tariff on 7.5 billion dollars-worth of EU goods, following a decision of WTO granting the US the right to take countermeasures against EU’s subsidies to Airbus. The value of the goods being targeted accounts for over 17% of the total EU exports to the US in 2018. In this...
Ganyi Zhang
November 04 2019
5 min

Customer experience and CSR put logistics back into the spotlight

The importance of logistics as an element of competitivity is no longer debatable in businesses, despite investment that is not comparable with this level of recognition. A study carried out by the group Les Échos for the logistics provider Geodis shows that the rise in the importance of challenges ...
Anne Kerriou -
October 31 2019
7 min

Rotterdam/Ningbo 40' HC dry: freight rates in exorable decline

For two years, we have seen a slow but inexorable reduction in ex-Europe ocean freight rates on the Rotterdam/Ningbo route. The cause is overcapacity. Capacity offered is much greater than demand on the Rotterdam/Ningbo route. This is the principal cause of the fall in freight rates seen on the rout...
Jerome de Ricqles
October 30 2019
2 min

How road transport can integrate the principles of the circular economy

When we talk about the circular economy in the supply chain, we generally think about optimizing logistic circuits and "reverse logistics". But road transport can also take part in the more general move to a circular economy. In many ways, it is already involved…sometimes without knowing how to best...
William Beguerie
October 29 2019
7 min

European ports: China sets up its commercial “factories”

For the last ten years or so China has been weaving a network of entry points into European ports, from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe, all linked to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This strategy is reminiscent of those of the colonial factories and the 19th century concessions, which the ...
Jerome de Ricqles
October 28 2019
4 min

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