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    Jérôme de Ricqlès

    Expert in Ocean shipping for 25 years, Jerome puts all his knowledge of the industry to contribution for Upply. Ship captain at heart, he has written the English-French Lexicon of Containerized Shipping (Paris: CELSE, 2001).

    The impact of trade imbalances on the management of container stocks

    Freight rates have not risen sharply everywhere. On some routes, the shipping companies are obliged to decide whether or not to market their containers or send them empty. The increase in freight rates seen in the container shipping sector since the start of the pandemic is closely linked to cargo f...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    April 01 2022
    4 min

    Impact of the Ukrainian conflict on the Asia-Europe container market

    The conflict in Ukraine has opened the way to an earlier than expected easing of European demand. This has brought a slight reduction in freight rates but the decrease has been largely outweighed by a return to heavier surcharges. A sharp rise in fuel prices, an increase in the cost of products of f...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 22 2022
    5 min

    The geopolitical situation is keeping freight rates at high levels

    MONTHLY BAROMETER. As the pandemic continues to block any change in the situation in Asia, the war in Ukraine has come as a new blow to market operators which depend on shipping services. On 24 February 2022, Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. At the start of March, the leading shipping companies...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 11 2022
    2 min

    Shipping and the environment : the race to reduce emissions

    The NGO platform Transport & Environment has attacked the European Commission's draft FuelEU Maritime regulation, arguing that it encourages the use of LNG fossil fuel. The shipping companies have no immediate alternative, however. European NGO platform Transport & Environment (T&E) has ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 08 2022
    3 min

    Do the shipping companies still find French ports attractive?

    The French ports are in a modest position in the container shipping rankings. They nevertheless have strong development potential and pulling power. At the end of 2021, France's three big container ports set a new container traffic record of more than 5.2 million teu. Dunkirk showed the strongest pr...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 01 2022
    5 min

    Ocean freight rates crept up again in January 2022

    MONTHLY BAROMETER. Ocean freight rates increased slightly again in January before the Chinese New Year. Access to capacity and container availability are still the major problems. For shippers, the months follow each other but look the same. The new year began with strong demand to secure long-term ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 15 2022
    3 min

    Shipping: If there had been no pandemic…

    Regular line shipping companies had been dictated to by the shippers for years and had run up heavy losses. The balance of power was suddenly reversed, however, by the Covid-19 pandemic and a return to pre-pandemic conditions now looks to be totally out of the question. After an already very comfort...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 08 2022
    5 min

    The prospects for container shipping in 2022

    After an exceptional financial year in 2021, the shipping companies want and seem to hold all the cards they need to do even better in 2022. You don't change a winning formula…In this early part of 2022, the shipping companies have every interest in pursuing the strategy which worked so well for the...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    January 25 2022
    2 min

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