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    Air freight industry gets off to a dynamic start in 2024

    BAROMETER. World air freight traffic increased by 11.9% year on year in February 2024 to 19.7 billion tonne-kilometres. Prices are rising again on Asia-Europe routes. In February 2024, the air freight industry registered its third consecutive month of two-figure, year-on-year growth, as traffic grew...
    Anne Kerriou
    April 23 2024
    5 min

    Italy: dynamic road transport despite its infrastructure

    SPECIAL FEATURE ITALY 2/5. The Italian road haulage market has performed mostly above the European average in recent years, despite glaring infrastructure shortcomings. In 2022, the Italian road freight transport market passed the one billion tonne mark, which had not occurred since 2013, thanks to ...
    Ariel F. Dumont
    April 16 2024
    9 min
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    Road transport prices in France are continuing to fall

    BAROMETER. Prices continued their long decline in March 2024, a sign that the volumes to be transported are still not picking up. A stabilisation of contract prices excluding diesel as well as the improvement in the morale of business leaders in April could possibly be a harbinger of spring. In Marc...
    William Béguerie
    April 15 2024
    2 min
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    Container traffic disruption set to continue in Red Sea

    BAROMETER. Traffic is still being disrupted in the Red Sea, but this has not prevented freight rates between Asia and Europe from flattening out. Thierry Blein, supply chain risk manager at the Renault automobile group, who was invited to speak at a conference entitled "Fifty shades of risk : what s...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 12 2024
    3 min

    Baltimore/Suez: are ships and infrastructure adapted to each other?

    The increase in the size and mass of container ships raises the question of their compatibility with the infrastructure supposed to accommodate them. At first glance, the blockage of the Suez Canal caused by the grounding of the Ever Given in March 2021 has little to do with the collapse of the Balt...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 05 2024
    5 min

    Containers: traffic from the world's major ports in 2023

    INFOGRAPHICS. American and European ports have recorded a sharp decline in container activity in 2023. Their Asian counterparts, on the other hand, are maintaining a good momentum. 1/ The world's Top 20 In 2023, the world's top 20 ports generated cumulative traffic of 387.5 million TEUs, up by 1.24%...
    Anne Kerriou
    April 03 2024
    5 min

    Shipping company profitability in 2024

    Will the economic and geopolitical situation allow shipping companies to make a profit in 2024 ? Our expert, Jérôme de Ricqlès, takes the plunge and tries to provide you with some replies to the question. This year, Upply is once again publishing its annual analysis of the outlook for the financial ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 29 2024
    7 min

    Air freight growth driven by Red Sea crisis

    BAROMETER. Global air freight traffic increased 18.4% year on year in January 2024 to 20.8 billion tonne-kilometres. Rates, however, remain on a downward trend. The air freight industry is sending out contradictory signals in this early part of 2024. Cargo volumes generally matched expectations. Tra...
    Anne Kerriou
    March 21 2024
    6 min

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