Market Insights | Transportation & Logistics Analysis (22)

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    Logistics, an essential cog in the Brittany economy

    SPECIAL REPORT. Upply's Road Freight Transport Tour de France is stopping on this occasion in Brittany, with a first article devoted to the regional economy. The region is characterised by the domination of the agri-food sector and its outlying geographical situation. In 2014, when the latest French...
    Anne Kerriou
    January 08 2021
    6 min

    Things are hotting up before Brexit

    As of January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom was no longer part of the European Union but a transition period has frozen the effects until the end of the year. However, the first tensions have appeared in the organization of transportation and supply chains. The European Commission and the British gov...
    David Thebault
    December 18 2020
    5 min

    European Road Transport in 2020: a resilient but fragile market

    European road transport seemed to have returned to an acceptable level of activity until it found itself confronted by the shock provoked by the second wave of the coronavirus. The International Road Transport Union has warned that there could be wide-scale bankruptcies in 2021 if governments do not...
    William Béguerie
    December 18 2020
    8 min
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    Seaborne container transport in 2020

    New balance of power between shippers and carriers, unprecedented freight rates levels, destabilised supply chains: you can read here our analysis of the main trends which have marked seaborne container transport in 2020. 2020 will remain in the annals as an exceptional year which has been full of s...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 17 2020
    2 min

    Road transportation prices: distance selling drives up prices

    Road transportation prices in France rose by 1.7% in November according to our monthly Upply barometer. In a semi-confined economic context and with declining volumes transported, this increase is more the result of a change in the nature of transportation than a sign of a real recovery in the marke...
    William Béguerie
    December 16 2020
    3 min

    Air freight capacity shortage continues

    Global air freight traffic is little by little continuing to catch up with its 2019 level, as is shown by IATA figures for the month of October. The end of the year promises to be lively nevertheless as the capacity shortage continues. The economic situation in the air freight sector is continuing t...
    Anne Kerriou
    December 15 2020
    3 min

    Antwerp-Norfolk: a stable even slightly downward trend

    Ocean freight rates on east-west transatlantic routes are relatively stable and even showing a slightly downward trend. This makes them an exception on a shipping market which is currently marked by rate overheating in all departments. We could almost doubt the fact, given the highs reached by freig...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    December 11 2020
    2 min

    Normandy : a lacklustre road freight transport market

    SPECIAL REPORT. Road freight transport in the Normandy region has been on a downward trend in recent years despite a recovery in 2018. Internal transport flows are showing the greatest buoyancy. Road freight transport traffic in Normandy, excluding transit, international and foreign flag traffic, sh...
    Anne Kerriou
    December 10 2020
    5 min

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