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    Shipping companies powerless against market turnaround

    BAROMETER. The first half was a very morose one for the container shipping companies and the big NVOCCs. They were obliged to look on powerlessly as their operating results continued to be dragged down by plunging revenues, cargo volumes and profit margins. Cargo volumes fell back from their post-Co...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 11 2023
    2 min

    Our scenarios for container shipping in S2 2023

    Morosity is the order of the day in this early part of the second semester. Restructuring and industry recomposition look to be inevitable. At the start of the year, we gave three possible scenarios for the container shipping business in 2023, as the overheating of the world economy finally ended bu...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 04 2023
    6 min

    Spanish air and sea traffic in 2022

    In 2022, both air and sea traffic suffered from the slowdown in the Spanish economy in the course of the year, as well as from the international economic climate. Maritime and air cargo transport in Spain have very different characteristics. Spain is a major player in the European port sector but no...
    Daniel Solano
    June 30 2023
    13 min
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    Logistics Performance Index: 5 key figures

    The World Bank has published the 7th edition of its report “Connecting to Compete”, which presents the logistics performance index of 139 countries. Summary in 5 figures of this first post-Covid edition. Since 2007, the World Bank has published a logistics performance index by country, based on six ...
    Anne Kerriou
    June 27 2023
    4 min

    Container shipping back to…abnormal

    The first half of 2023 was marked by the return of overcapacity in the container shipping sector and, with it, slow steaming. This was not enough, however, to prevent freight rates from collapsing. For the shipping companies, the violence of the collapse in freight rates was commensurate with that e...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    June 20 2023
    6 min
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    French transport prices rose sharply in May

    BAROMETER. Road transport prices in France rose by 1.1% in May, as public holidays led to a concentration of demand. The ecological transition becomes a major subject, symbolized by the Decarbonization roadmap given to the French government by professional organizations. The month of May in France w...
    William Béguerie
    June 16 2023
    3 min

    Air freight traffic and revenue forecasts reduced

    BAROMETER. IATA has lowered its forecasts for 2023 after cargo volumes and prices stayed below their 2022 levels in April. Once again, in April 2023, global demand for air freight fell in tonne-kilometres fell. According to data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), there was a 6....
    Anne Kerriou
    June 13 2023
    5 min
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    Container shipping returns to its old habits

    BAROMETER. Shipping companies are slowing down their ships to reduce overcapacity, while the fall in freight rates is now affecting virtually all major trade lanes. As in April, the freight rate market remained stable in May, but rates on the major east-west routes were at barely viable levels for t...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    June 09 2023
    2 min

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