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    The Coronavirus is severely reducing container availability

    Stocks of empty containers are starting to run out in the United States and Europe. A considerable number have been immobilized in China as a result of the Coronavirus. This should start to affect freight rates in March and April. Many containers, full and empty, are currently immobilized in China f...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    March 02 2020
    2 min

    Coronavirus: The road back to work in China is a bumpy one

    The whole of China, except Hubei, is now pushing to get back to work. Overall, the restoration of the Chinese manufacturing industry is asymmetrical when looking at the rapidly growing number of companies that have resumed work compared to the slow recovery of their manufacturing capacity. Over the ...
    Ganyi Zhang
    February 28 2020
    4 min

    Road transport: price alert for freight leaving Marseille in January

    Our monthly Upply French road transport barometer reveals that the fall in transport prices has hit the PACA region hard in January. This can be seen as the resulting impact of the blockade of French ports which seriously affected Marseille-Fos. At a national level, the prices of road freight transp...
    William Béguerie
    February 27 2020
    3 min
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    Le Havre/New York: ocean freight rates still steady

    The price of ocean transport between Le Havre and New York is holding up despite the sharp drop in demand for wine and spirit exports to the United States since the month of October. But the situation is unlikely to last.
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 26 2020
    2 min

    The UK opts for two-pronged post-Brexit maritime strategy

    At midnight on January 31 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. Nothing has changed so far for the freight transport sector, but the countdown has started. The ports are getting themselves ready. More than three years after the referendum in which it decided to leave the Europ...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 25 2020
    5 min

    A comparative view of China-Germany and China-France cooperation

    Although they have not formally joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Germany and France, the two largest economies in Europe, are inevitably involved in projects undertaken within this framework. This article delivers a comparative view of the China-Germany and China-France cooperative approac...
    Ganyi Zhang
    February 24 2020
    9 min

    Polish hauliers' blues should be short-lived

    In Poland, road hauliers' operating costs could increase by between 7% and 15% by the end of 2020. Business leaders are not hiding their concern. The sector needs to change to keep its place in the European rankings. Over the last 15 years, the Polish fleet has become one of the leaders in the Europ...
    William Béguerie
    February 20 2020
    6 min

    Marine insurance: pay attention to general average

    Focussing excessively on freight rates sometimes distracts attention from subsidiary parts of shippers' maritime transport budgets like transport insurance. It is an area which should not be neglected, however, if one wants to avoid rude awakenings. Let's start this quick tour of transport insurance...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    February 17 2020
    2 min

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