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    Containers: fragile stability on the main East-West lanes

    MONTHLY BAROMETER. The combination of the slowdown in European demand, the war in Ukraine and, above all, the Omicron outbreak in China constitute a real "stress test" for the strategy of capacity control put in place by shipping companies at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The war in Ukrain...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 08 2022
    2 min

    Changes in Spanish road transport

    SPECIAL FEATURE 2/5 - Spanish Road freight transport (RFT) is a key sector of its economy and a major player in Europe, thanks to the dynamism of major leading groups. However, in recent years, this sector has been going through a crisis situation. A series of reforms introduced in 2021 and 2022 sho...
    Daniel Solano
    April 06 2022
    3 min

    The impact of trade imbalances on the management of container stocks

    Freight rates have not risen sharply everywhere. On some routes, the shipping companies are obliged to decide whether or not to market their containers or send them empty.   The increase in freight rates seen in the container shipping sector since the start of the pandemic is closely linked to cargo...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 01 2022
    4 min
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    Spain: a key player in the European economy

    SPECIAL FEATURE 1/5 - Historically and geographically on the margins of Europe, Spain is now one of the main European markets. The transport and logistics sector is a major player in the Spanish economy, we have therefore decided to devote a series of articles to this sector. We start this week with...
    Daniel Solano
    March 30 2022
    8 min

    Inflation is invading the entire supply chain

    The war in Ukraine is exacerbating the rise in energy prices and disruptions to supply chains that have emerged during the pandemic. These two factors will weigh on the evolution of transport prices and logistics costs in general. Two years after the outbreak of the pandemic, which generated an awar...
    Anne Kerriou
    March 25 2022
    11 min

    Impact of the Ukrainian conflict on the Asia-Europe container market

    The conflict in Ukraine has opened the way to an earlier than expected easing of European demand. This has brought a slight reduction in freight rates but the decrease has been largely outweighed by a return to heavier surcharges. A sharp rise in fuel prices, an increase in the cost of products of f...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 22 2022
    5 min

    Air freight growth slows down

    Worldwide air freight traffic rose in January 2022 but at a markedly slower rate than at the end of 2021. Prospects have been dimmed by the conflict in Ukraine. Worldwide demand for air freight in tonne-kilometres increased by 2.7% year-on-year in January 2022 and by 3.2% in the international sector...
    Anne Kerriou
    March 18 2022
    5 min
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    Road transport: war in Ukraine fuels price rises

    MONTHLY BAROMETER. Road transport prices in France rose again in February as shown by our Upply barometer. All the ingredients are in place to keep inflation high and sustainable… February was a month of stupefaction. It began with a dynamic feeling at the end of the fifth wave of Covid-19. The spik...
    William Béguerie
    March 15 2022
    2 min

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