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Occitanie: solid resistance from road transport sector

DOSSIER. Road freight transport in the Occitanie region has increased by 5.9% in 5 years, driven by internal flows. The sector benefits also from the stability of inflows and outflows. Road freight transport (RFT) in Occitanie is in quite good shape. "In 2018, it increased more dynamically than in m...
Anne Kerriou -
August 07 2020
6 min

Air freight: a fragile improvement in June

The slight recovery which got under way in the global air freight industry in May continued in June. It remains modest and below expectations, however, while, at the same time, the number of urgent PPE shipments is being reduced. This situation is affecting freight rates, which are tending to fall. ...
Anne Kerriou -
August 04 2020
3 min

Occitanie: logistical attractiveness to be confirmed

DOSSIER. The “Upply Tour de France of Road Freight Transport (RFT)” makes a stop in Occitanie, with this first article dedicated to its economy. The region is capitalizing on its demographic dynamism and its strong aeronautical and agro-food sectors, but its logistical activities still have room for...
Anne Kerriou -
July 30 2020
6 min
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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

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...
Jerome de Ricqles
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...
Jerome de Ricqles
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...
Jerome de Ricqles
July 10 2020
5 min

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