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    Normandy: a logistics industry with a strong maritime dimension

    SPECIAL REPORT. Upply's Road Freight Transport Tour de France is this week exploring Normandy. A heavily industrialized region, with a logistics industry strongly marked by the Port of Le Havre and the Seine Valley corridor. In 2015, under the terms of French local government reorganization legislat...
    Anne Kerriou
    December 03 2020
    6 min

    US-EU tariff lists: Food and agricultural sector trade on the front line

    On November 9th, the European Union decided to impose tariffs on around 4 billion dollars-worth of American products. One year ago, the US took a similar decision for 7.5 billion dollars-worth of European products. Our comparative analysis shows that the food and agricultural sector is that most exp...
    Ganyi Zhang
    December 01 2020
    7 min

    Air and sea freight market still favourable to carriers

    International transport prices are continuing to rise in both the aviation and container shipping sectors. As the uncertainty over public health continues all over the world, the balance of power clearly does not favour shippers. The Covid-19 epidemic and the political decisions to contain the pande...
    David Thebault
    November 26 2020
    6 min
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    Moderate recovery in road transportation prices in Europe in Q3

    The lifting of lockdown measures generated a recovery in demand in the third quarter of 2020, with a certain tendency to catch up with normal levels. At the same time, capacity returned to the market, as such limiting the rise in prices of road freight transportation. After reaching its lowest level...
    Anne Kerriou
    November 24 2020
    3 min

    Optimizing freight transportation: a collaborative task

    Digital players are creating new opportunities to optimize freight transportation flows, which enables pertinent cooperation that will strengthen market efficiency. A pragmatic approach illustrated by the collaboration between Upply and PTV. The road freight transportation market is currently underg...
    Upply News
    November 20 2020
    4 min

    Road transport prices fall slightly in October

    Road hauliers saw October 2020 prices fall 0.4% against those of the previous month on the French market, according to our Upply barometer. The modest recovery which had been in progress was obliterated by the new public health measures. The transport price graph showed a slight 0.4% fall in October...
    William Béguerie
    November 19 2020
    3 min

    The emergence of Road Freight Services between China and Europe

    The disruption of shipping due to the pandemic has generated a growing need for diversified transportation modes on the Europe-Asia trade lane. While China-EU rail freight has caught most attention, there have also been growing demands for road freight between China and the EU. The door-to-door Chin...
    Ganyi Zhang
    November 18 2020
    6 min

    Air freight industry continues to recover

    Demand is returning in the air freight industry, which is little by little catching up on its 2019 traffic levels. After a lull, freight rates are climbing again. Worldwide air freight traffic in tonne-kilometres in September 2020 was down 8% on its level in September 2019, according to the figures ...
    Anne Kerriou
    November 12 2020
    4 min

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