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    Pharmaceutical products: onerous conditions for maritime transport
    Anne Kerriou
    January 09 2020
    5 min

    Shanghai-Fos: sharp rise in freight rates

    Strong growth in demand out of Asia as the Chinese New Year approaches has boosted maritime freight rates towards Europe. Particularly since several shipping companies have at the same time delayed vessel departures. Wide-ranging postponements of vessel departures, coupled with greater demand for lo...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    January 08 2020
    3 min

    Tanger Med: a troublemaker in the West African hubs game

    DOSSIER. By opening Tanger Med in 2007, Morocco has upset the ambitions of West African ports in their race to become regional hubs. Faced with its competitors in the Dakar-Luanda range, Tanger Med has succeeded to assert itself, but above all for the operators that have an ownership stake in its te...
    Hervé Deiss
    January 07 2020
    4 min
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    Tanger Med: An overview of the Logistical and Industrial Free Zones

    DOSSIER. Tanger Med has established logistical and industrial free zones around container and Ro-Ro terminals. In total, 1,600 hectares of land are now devoted to these various activities. Tanger Med Special Agency, the special agency in charge of managing Tanger Med, has created a subsidiary, Tange...
    Hervé Deiss
    January 06 2020
    5 min

    Tanger Med : beyond the port, a perfect ecosystem

    DOSSIER. The port of Tanger Med has evolved over the years to become a genuine concept for port logistics. It is no longer a simple place for the loading and unloading of goods, but an ecosystem that combines port logistics and industrial activity. To reduce Tanger Med to its mere ranking as the 43r...
    Hervé Deiss
    January 03 2020
    5 min

    Tanger Med: chronology of an ambition

    DOSSIER. In the space of 20 years, Morocco has developed a logistics ecosystem in Tanger Med that has attracted both major maritime operators and leading shippers. How was this success built? Upply retraces this adventure in a series of articles that begins with this chronology of operations. The pr...
    Hervé Deiss
    January 02 2020
    5 min

    Alternatives to diesel: the path towards a new energy mix

    Conference. The need to reduce greenhouse gases means that lorry manufacturers, equipment producers and hauliers must all play a role in the transition to new sources of energy. How should it be carried out? What energy sources represent a real alternative to diesel? Several lorry manufacturers at t...
    Upply News
    December 19 2019
    4 min

    Fos-Algiers: ocean freight rates show great stability

    Ocean freight rates for 40' HC containers on the Fos-Algiers route are showing great stability despite shipping companies having announced increases. On the Fos-Algiers line, we are seeing weaker than usual cargo volumes because of the political and economic uncertainty which has persisted since Mar...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 18 2019
    2 min

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