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    Economic outlook: an increasing risk of stagflation

    Mid-year growth forecasts for 2022 have been revised downwards. The growth of international freight trade is slowing down, and international transport prices are stabilising. After the strong rebound in 2021, a slowdown in global growth was to be expected, but it turns out to be more brutal than ant...
    Anne Kerriou
    September 09 2022
    7 min
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    The shipping companies prepare for market turnabout

    BAROMETER. August results have confirmed the fall in Western demand and the drop in spot rates for goods from China. The trends seen in July on the container shipping market were confirmed in August. Demand slowed, reducing spot freight rates, particularly for goods from China. The climate is morose...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 06 2022
    2 min

    Traffic through the world's leading ports in the first half of 2022

    [INFOGRAPHICS] The lull in the growth of world trade, after it overheated in 2021, is starting to have an impact on traffic through the world's leading ports. The slowdown is particularly marked in European ports. 1/ The world leaders Traffic trends at the world's leading ports are evidence of the p...
    Anne Kerriou
    September 01 2022
    5 min
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    Taiwan: Tensions have not triggered a rebound in freight rates

    FAK maritime freight rates between Asia and Europe continued to drop in August, despite renewed tension between China and the United States over the Taiwan issue. Tensions between China and Taiwan are not new. This is a factor to be closely monitored, as this situation which is smouldering beneath t...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    August 30 2022
    3 min

    Europe: road transport prices hit record highs in the 2nd quarter

    The increase in road freight transport prices in Europe continued and even accelerated in the second quarter of 2022, boosted in particular by the surge in fuel prices. The Ti/Upply/IRU Road Freight Rate Benchmark in Europe has reached historic levels, after several consecutive quarters of increase....
    Anne Kerriou
    August 25 2022
    3 min

    Air freight: a delicate balance

    Global demand for air freight fell 4.3% in the first half of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021. It is still above pre-pandemic levels but the economic outlook is not very favourable. The end of lockdowns in China had a positive impact on global freight activity in the month of June. Accordin...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 23 2022
    5 min
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    Road transport prices reached boiling point in July

    BAROMETER. Road transport prices in France rose another 2.2% in July, according to the Upply Freight Index. They may now be approaching a peak, as the deteriorating economic situation is driving diesel prices and volumes down.  
    William Béguerie
    August 18 2022
    2 min
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    Container shipping: a controlled lull

    BAROMETER. The beginning of summer has been marked by a moderate erosion of sea freight rates leaving Asia, despite low demand, while the East-West transatlantic corridor remains bullish. In most of the major Western economies, the focus during the summer is on the fight on inflation, as evidenced b...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    August 16 2022
    2 min

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