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    Tariff war boosts March air freight traffic

    Global air freight traffic registered a surprising 4.4% year-on-year increase in March, probably due to early ordering to beat the introduction of trade tariffs. As a result, transport prices increased on certain trade routes. 1/ Supply and demand Traffic in March 2025 By provoking a drive to stock ...
    Anne Kerriou
    May 14 2025
    5 min

    The UK remains an attractive market for road transport

    SPECIAL FEATURE 3/5. As elsewhere in Europe, road transport plays a major role in the movement of goods in the United Kingdom. The size of the British economy makes it an attractive market, even if the last two years have been difficult. In 2019, the last full year before Brexit came into effect, th...
    Anne Kerriou
    May 02 2025
    9 min

    How relevant would be a two-tier container services network?

    Current trade tensions represent an opportunity to rethink the organisation of container shipping services out of Asia. We have opted to look at the possibility of organising a hybrid shipping service network. The period of great global instability we are currently going through raises questions abo...
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    April 30 2025
    7 min
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    French market: road transport prices fall in March

    BAROMETER. Road freight transport prices fell again in March. But this is mainly due to the drop in energy prices, which is very good news for carriers. In March, France was the European champion in inflation reduction, thanks to a very sharp drop in energy prices (-6.6%). This renewed competitivene...
    William Béguerie
    April 24 2025
    3 min

    Air freight traffic slowdown confirmed

    Global air freight traffic fell for the first in 18 months in February 2025. Transport prices are falling generally and the prospect of a trade war is causing concern. 1/ Supply and demand trends Traffic in February 2025 World air freight traffic in tonne-kilometres dipped 0.1% year on year in Febru...
    Anne Kerriou
    April 15 2025
    6 min
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    Containers: American announcements are alarming the market  

    BAROMETER. The prospect of a “double penalty”, namely increased tariffs and taxation of Chinese ships and operators in the United States, plunges the markets for freight rates into an erratic and hesitant state. While the reopening of the Red Sea appears to be a White House priority, the new global ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 09 2025
    4 min

    Containers: 2024 ranking of the world's major ports

    INFOGRAPHICS. American and European ports have returned to growth in 2024, at a steady pace for the former and more moderate for the latter. Their Asian counterparts have mostly benefited from renewed Western and intra-Asian demand. 1/ The global Top 20 In 2024, the world's top 20 ports generated a ...
    Anne Kerriou
    April 03 2025
    9 min

    Shipping company profitability in 2025

    After unhoped for profits for the shipping companies in 2024, 2025 promises to be more difficult. Will the shipping companies make money this year? Every year for five years, Upply has tried to forecast whether or not the shipping companies would be profitable. Until now, our predictions have tended...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 31 2025
    6 min

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