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Seaborne container transport in 2020

New balance of power between shippers and carriers, unprecedented freight rates levels, destabilised supply chains: you can read here our analysis of the main trends which have marked seaborne container transport in 2020. 2020 will remain in the annals as an exceptional year which has been full of s...
Jerome de Ricqles
December 17 2020
2 min

Road transportation prices: distance selling drives up prices

Road transportation prices in France rose by 1.7% in November according to our monthly Upply barometer. In a semi-confined economic context and with declining volumes transported, this increase is more the result of a change in the nature of transportation than a sign of a real recovery in the marke...
William Beguerie
December 16 2020
3 min

Air freight capacity shortage continues

Global air freight traffic is little by little continuing to catch up with its 2019 level, as is shown by IATA figures for the month of October. The end of the year promises to be lively nevertheless as the capacity shortage continues. The economic situation in the air freight sector is continuing t...
Anne Kerriou -
December 15 2020
3 min
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DIAGMA uses Upply to refine its data models

CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY. The consulting firm DIAGMA has been using the UPPLY platform since mid-2020 to enrich the modeling of its customers' logistics networks with precise and qualitative transportation cost data. Interview with Léandre Boulez, Associate at DIAGMA.
Upply News
December 14 2020
3 min

Antwerp-Norfolk: a stable even slightly downward trend

Ocean freight rates on east-west transatlantic routes are relatively stable and even showing a slightly downward trend. This makes them an exception on a shipping market which is currently marked by rate overheating in all departments. We could almost doubt the fact, given the highs reached by freig...
Jerome de Ricqles
December 11 2020
2 min

Normandy : a lacklustre road freight transport market

SPECIAL REPORT. Road freight transport in the Normandy region has been on a downward trend in recent years despite a recovery in 2018. Internal transport flows are showing the greatest buoyancy. Road freight transport traffic in Normandy, excluding transit, international and foreign flag traffic, sh...
Anne Kerriou -
December 10 2020
5 min

The success of cross-border e-commerce in the Europe-Asia trade lane

The pandemic has meant that consumers are increasingly turning to online shopping. E-commerce has become a very significant source of traffic flow between Europe and Asia in both directions. Consumers are increasingly turning to online shopping in the face of the pandemic. Major shopping events such...
Ganyi Zhang
December 08 2020
9 min

Containers needed urgently…

European, American and Chinese exporters have reported recurrent difficulties in recent weeks in obtaining containers from the shipping companies. The problem is less due to a shortage than to the inability of the shipping companies to reposition containers quickly to the places where they are neede...
Jerome de Ricqles
December 04 2020
5 min

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