Market Insights | Transportation & Logistics Analysis (27)

Exclusive analysis on freight transport, supply chain and international trade topics

    Tags

    Tags

    Most Popular

    Check out our news
    New call-to-action

    Occitanie: solid resistance from road transport sector

    DOSSIER. Road freight transport in the Occitanie region has increased by 5.9% in 5 years, driven by internal flows. The sector benefits also from the stability of inflows and outflows. Road freight transport (RFT) in Occitanie is in quite good shape. "In 2018, it increased more dynamically than in m...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 07 2020
    6 min

    Air freight: a fragile improvement in June

    The slight recovery which got under way in the global air freight industry in May continued in June. It remains modest and below expectations, however, while, at the same time, the number of urgent PPE shipments is being reduced. This situation is affecting freight rates, which are tending to fall. ...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 04 2020
    3 min

    Occitanie: logistical attractiveness to be confirmed

    DOSSIER. The “Upply Tour de France of Road Freight Transport (RFT)” makes a stop in Occitanie, with this first article dedicated to its economy. The region is capitalizing on its demographic dynamism and its strong aeronautical and agro-food sectors, but its logistical activities still have room for...
    Anne Kerriou
    July 30 2020
    6 min
    Ti x IRU x Upply
    EN-CTA-autopromo-download-report-TI-Q4-2022
    Download for free!

    Air freight: freight rate spike starts to ease

    Global demand in the air freight sector remains markedly lower than in 2019 but IATA's May traffic figures show a slight recovery. Pressure on capacity is beginning to ease, moreover, slowing down the spike in prices seen at the height of the Covid-19 crisis. In April, the global air freight industr...
    Anne Kerriou
    July 23 2020
    4 min

    Ningbo-Le Havre : ocean freight rates stabilise at a high level

    The increase in freight rates in this segment of the Asia-Europe trades is tending to level off. Prices are stabilising at around the median rates recorded in mid-July last year. Since the start of the coronavirus crisis, the shipping companies have been managing their capacity very closely. This ha...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 20 2020
    2 min

    Container shipping: why freight rates are holding up

    Nothing seems able to disturb the tight capacity control strategy which has been exercised by the top ten shipping companies since the Chinese New Year on east-west trade routes. As a result, freight rates are holding up at high levels despite the fall in global demand. It has taken the Covid-19 epi...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 15 2020
    4 min

    Mobility Package: a new framework for European road transport

    The European Parliament adopted the new rules on road freight transport provided for in the first part of the Mobility Package. The rule on rest times will be applied within a short time-frame. For the other provisions, they will become applicable within 18 months of the legislation entering into fo...
    Anne Kerriou
    July 13 2020
    4 min

    Digitalisation in container shipping

    Port Community Systems have become an essential tool for the exchange of information in the container shipping sector. Their role in the management of key data means, however, that particular attention needs to be paid to their governance. Over the last 20 years, the world's major cargo ports have i...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    July 10 2020
    5 min

    Check out our news