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    Coronavirus: an asymmetrical recovery which unsettles the supply chain

    The Covid-19 epidemic continues to spread around the world, despite a certain respite in China and Europe. A complex situation to manage, especially in sectors dependent on global logistics. The recovery promises to be asymmetrical, both regionally and by industry. On July 7th, the EU published its ...
    Ganyi Zhang
    July 28 2020
    8 min

    June 2020: road transport prices are still trending downwards

    Road transport prices on the French market continued to decline in June compared to the month of May. Our monthly Upply barometer shows a fall of 1.25%, suggesting a serious crisis for the sector. Unsurprisingly, the fall in transport prices observed in France is continuing, with June making it a 7t...
    William Béguerie
    July 24 2020
    3 min

    Air freight: freight rate spike starts to ease

    Global demand in the air freight sector remains markedly lower than in 2019 but IATA's May traffic figures show a slight recovery. Pressure on capacity is beginning to ease, moreover, slowing down the spike in prices seen at the height of the Covid-19 crisis. In April, the global air freight industr...
    Anne Kerriou
    July 23 2020
    4 min
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    Ningbo-Le Havre : ocean freight rates stabilise at a high level

    The increase in freight rates in this segment of the Asia-Europe trades is tending to level off. Prices are stabilising at around the median rates recorded in mid-July last year. Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, the shipping companies have been managing their capacity very closely. This ha...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 20 2020
    2 min

    Container shipping: why freight rates are holding up

    Nothing seems able to disturb the tight capacity control strategy which has been exercised by the top ten shipping companies since the Chinese New Year on east-west trade routes. As a result, freight rates are holding up at high levels despite the fall in global demand. It has taken the Covid-19 epi...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 15 2020
    4 min

    Mobility Package: a new framework for European road transport

    The European Parliament adopted the new rules on road freight transport provided for in the first part of the Mobility Package. The rule on rest times will be applied within a short time-frame. For the other provisions, they will become applicable within 18 months of the legislation entering into fo...
    Anne Kerriou
    July 13 2020
    4 min

    Digitalisation in container shipping

    Port Community Systems have become an essential tool for the exchange of information in the container shipping sector. Their role in the management of key data means, however, that particular attention needs to be paid to their governance. Over the last 20 years, the world's major cargo ports have i...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 10 2020
    5 min

    API’s Key Role in the Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain

    From Track & Trace to pricing strategies or route optimization, third party services directly plugged into internal tools can significantly improve the efficiency of the Supply Chain industry. An API can reduce the cost of the implementation of an IT solution by a factor of 2 or 3, compared to t...
    Thomas Larrieu
    July 08 2020
    2 min

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