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    Air freight: further decline in July

    The downturn in activity is confirmed on the world air cargo scene, with a fall of 9.7% in July year-on-year. European airlines are the hardest hit by the slowdown. The demand for air freight continues to fall, having already suffered a year-on-year decrease of 4.3% in the first half of 2022. In Jul...
    Anne Kerriou
    September 19 2022
    4 min

    What if the container consortium block exemption was removed?

    Bruxelles has started consultations on the future of the exemption from EU competition laws enjoyed by the regular line shipping companies. Here, we want to try an exercise in political fiction, based on four different hypotheses. Customers of regular line shipping companies are up in arms. Over the...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 15 2022
    9 min
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    France: first fall in road transport prices in August

    BAROMETER. For the first time this year, August saw road transport prices fall, according to the Upply Freight Index. This fall of 0.7%, caused by the drop in spot prices, raises questions about the future of the transport economy. In August 2022, inflation in the euro area reached a new all-time hi...
    William Béguerie
    September 14 2022
    2 min
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    The shipping companies prepare for market turnabout

    BAROMETER. August results have confirmed the fall in Western demand and the drop in spot rates for goods from China. The trends seen in July on the container shipping market were confirmed in August. Demand slowed, reducing spot freight rates, particularly for goods from China. The climate is morose...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    September 06 2022
    2 min

    Traffic through the world's leading ports in the first half of 2022

    [INFOGRAPHICS] The lull in the growth of world trade, after it overheated in 2021, is starting to have an impact on traffic through the world's leading ports. The slowdown is particularly marked in European ports. 1/ The world leaders Traffic trends at the world's leading ports are evidence of the p...
    Anne Kerriou
    September 01 2022
    5 min

    Taiwan: Tensions have not triggered a rebound in freight rates

    FAK maritime freight rates between Asia and Europe continued to drop in August, despite renewed tension between China and the United States over the Taiwan issue. Tensions between China and Taiwan are not new. This is a factor to be closely monitored, as this situation which is smouldering beneath t...
    Jérôme de Ricqlès
    August 30 2022
    3 min

    Europe: road transport prices hit record highs in the 2nd quarter

    The increase in road freight transport prices in Europe continued and even accelerated in the second quarter of 2022, boosted in particular by the surge in fuel prices. The Ti/Upply/IRU Road Freight Rate Benchmark in Europe has reached historic levels, after several consecutive quarters of increase....
    Anne Kerriou
    August 25 2022
    3 min

    Air freight: a delicate balance

    Global demand for air freight fell 4.3% in the first half of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021. It is still above pre-pandemic levels but the economic outlook is not very favourable. The end of lockdowns in China had a positive impact on global freight activity in the month of June. Accordin...
    Anne Kerriou
    August 23 2022
    5 min

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