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    Air freight: recovery held back by lack of capacity

    Demand for air freight is returning but more slowly than certain economic indicators had led the sector to hope. Freight rates overall are on a downward trend but remain at high levels by comparison with 2019. Global demand for air freight in tonne-kilometres remained below the 2019 level in July, a...
    Anne Kerriou
    September 08 2020
    3 min

    Shanghai-Antwerp: ocean freight rates are stabilizing

    Ocean freight rates between Asia and Europe have been stabilizing since the start of the summer but remain at high levels. This situation should last, even though new capacity will slightly relieve the pressure on space aboard ship. The excess heat is coming out of the market… After a limited downwa...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 07 2020
    2 min

    Containers: shipping lines no longer ''regular''

    Regularity of service has for long been one of the fundamental features of container shipping. Today, however, companies are tending to move away from this historic model in favour of a hybrid range of services. A striking feature of recent years has been the fact that regular line shipping companie...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 04 2020
    3 min
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    July 2020: road transportation prices recover

    Road transportation prices on the French market rebounded slightly by 0.7% in July compared to June according to our monthly Upply barometer. This puts an end to a continuous fall in prices in France for 7 months, but it is not enough to get the transportation sector out of the serious crisis it is ...
    William Béguerie
    August 27 2020
    3 min

    Connecting Liner Terms with Incoterms®

    In this second article about Liner Terms, Upply proposes an exploration of the reasons for aligning these general sale conditions used by shipping companies with Incoterms®. The aim is to make the cost sharing boundaries more tangible and, as far as possible, concurrent. Aligning Liner Terms with In...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    August 24 2020
    4 min

    The digital ecosystem is shaking up transport business models

    The various supply chain organizational models resulting from digital transformation, deal little with the case of carriers, who are ignored or even suspected of resistance to change. Let us review the changes taking place and highlight the initiatives at work in this sector that is in fact more mod...
    William Béguerie
    August 21 2020
    9 min

    Q2 Transport prices in Europe: disrupted supply / demand dynamics

    In the thick of the pandemic the average price of road freight transport in Europe in the second quarter of 2020 reached its lowest level since the 1st quarter of 2018. The road freight rate in Europe averaged € 1,083 in the first quarter of 2020, according to the latest European Road Freight Rate B...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 13 2020
    2 min

    Road transport prices: the significant but relative effect of oil

    By using the Upply barometer of road transport prices in the French market, in an approach that is complementary to the cost indexes published by the CNR (National Road Committee), let us examine the mechanisms that are at work in the final fixing of transport prices. During the period of January to...
    Audrey Ribeiro -
    August 11 2020
    3 min

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