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    Coronavirus: easing of restrictions for the transport of goods

    Identify priority lanes. Ensure that border checks do not exceed 15 minutes. Remove restrictions on movement for road freight transport and transport personnel generally. The European Commission has set out the measures it expects member states to take to ensure the flow of freight is fluid during t...
    Anne Kerriou
    March 26 2020
    3 min

    Coronavirus outbreak: a potential shortage of meat in China

    The health situation is improving in China. But the supply of meat may become an emerging problem and a logistical issue for the coming months, as a collateral effect of the Covid-19 outbreak. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, Chinese food supply demand has been experiencing a temporary decrease s...
    Ganyi Zhang
    March 26 2020
    6 min

    Antwerp-Ningbo: a marked increase in freight rates

    The Upply data base shows that ocean freight rates for the port-to-port carriage of a 40' HC dry container between Antwerp and Ningbo rose 18% between February 16 and March 9. Several factors led to the creation of this balance of power favorable to the shipping companies. For several weeks, several...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 25 2020
    2 min
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    The boomerang effect of the Chinese recovery must be anticipated now

    With the gradual normalization of the situation in Chinese ports, the logistics and port sector, while coping with the emergency, must prepare for recovery to avoid being wrong footed in Europe. This is particularly true for maritime transport. The French Ministry of Transport, together with all the...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 23 2020
    2 min

    Coronavirus: Europe wants coordinated measures

    The European Commission has presented guidelines for the coordinated management of the Covid-19 epidemic. A large section is devoted to the transport of goods and the supply chain. In response to the disparate measures, that are sometimes contrary to European law, taken by certain Member States to c...
    Anne Kerriou
    March 20 2020
    3 min

    Road transport in France: transport prices down by 0.25% in February

    Road freight transport rates in France fell in February, but in rather lower proportions than expected. The sector's strong performance can be explained by the context of a pre-crisis for the Coronavirus. The fall revealed by our monthly Upply barometer for road freight transport in France in Februa...
    William Béguerie
    March 19 2020
    2 min

    Shanghai - Los Angeles: maritime freight rates are on the rise

    There has been a rebound in freight rates between Asia and the West Coast of the United States. A trend that has been favored by the (partial) recovery of activity in China, at a time where US companies need to replenish their stocks. With the return of industrial production to an average level of 7...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 18 2020
    2 min

    Coronavirus and air cargo: the worst is yet to come

    World air cargo traffic decreased by 3.3% in January 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. But the worst is yet to come, due to the coronavirus epidemic which is disrupting factory production and air links. The easing of the trade war between China and the United States, which resulted in the si...
    Anne Kerriou
    March 17 2020
    3 min

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