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    Container shipping in 2024

    2024 has been marked by disruption in the Red Sea, which, ironically, has rescued the financial results of the shipping companies but hampered their efforts to improve their environmental balance sheets. Let us look at the year by highlighting 10 key phenomena. The year 2024 promised nothing good fo...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 17 2024
    4 min

    2024 review of road transport in Europe

    Demand for road transport remains weak, in a gloomy context for the European economy. This situation is pushing prices down and penalising the profit margins of carriers, whose costs are ever-increasing. This disastrous equation complicates decarbonisation efforts. 1. A struggling European economy E...
    William Béguerie
    December 13 2024
    11 min
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    Container shipping companies obtain some end-of-year respite

    BAROMETER. The prospect of an increase in customs duties is currently pushing freight rates up on lines serving the United States. On Asia-Europe routes, however, the market fundamentals remain worrying. The overriding feeling in November is that the container shipping market is once again marked by...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 11 2024
    3 min
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    Air freight: a healthy end to the year

    The global air cargo industry continues to see traffic growth in October, with freight rates seeing a sharp increase. The prospect of an increase in customs duties in 2025 should reinforce the trend in the last months of the year. 1/ The evolution of supply and demand October 2024 traffic Global air...
    Anne Kerriou
    December 06 2024
    5 min

    The recomposition of the shipping alliances in 2025

    February 2025 will mark the start of a restructuring of the global container shipping market around four main units. This transformation will have consequences for ports and shipping company clients alike. A major upheaval is in preparation in the world of shipping alliances, which have not been sub...
    Hervé Deiss
    December 04 2024
    3 min

    Spain: port governance reform on the agenda

    The Spanish authorities have launched a review process of port governance. This involves remedying the limitations of the current system and adapting to the changes observed on an international scale, which directly impact Spanish port activity. In terms of ports, Spain occupies a unique place in Eu...
    Daniel Solano
    November 29 2024
    3 min

    Road transport: the European spot market falls again

    Road freight transport prices in Europe were down in Q3 2024, both on the spot market and on the contract market, illustrating the fragility of the European economy. The hopes raised by the increase in spot rates observed in the second quarter of 2024 on the European road transport market were short...
    Anne Kerriou
    November 26 2024
    4 min

    French road transport: erosion of margins in 2023

    The financial results of the road transport sector in France, presented at the FNTR congress, illustrate the net slowdown in activity. The Banque de France's annual survey on road freight transport in France, unveiled at the last FNTR congress, highlights the weakening of the sector in 2023.
    Anne Kerriou
    November 22 2024
    5 min

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