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Road transport prices in France jumped 8% month-on-month in April 2026, reaching unprecedented levels.
The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz is dragging on with major consequences for the organisation and cost of container transport worldwide.
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Long penalised by a specific railway gauge, Spain is accelerating its integration into the European network.
French road transport is on the brink of collapse, hit hard by the surge in diesel prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has dealt the global shipping economy a major blow. After the initial shock, the maritime logistics chain is striving to adapt.
Road transport prices fell sharply by 1.6% in February, and the conflict in Iran is now increasing costs and threatening growth.
The shipping companies saw another fall in spot rates in February despite wide-ranging blank sailings.
Road freight transport prices fell by only 0.1% in January 2026, despite volatility in diesel in a sluggish economy.
Spot freight rates began falling again in mid-January as pre-Chinese New Year transport capacity finally outstripped demand, despite the latter being sustained.
Global air cargo has demonstrated an adaptability that has enabled it to register further good volume growth in 2025.
Global economic growth is expected to slow slightly in 2026, while trade will be subject to increasingly numerous and diversified risks.
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In 2025, Spain adopted a 2025–2050 maritime strategy alongside a national plan to cut maritime transport emissions by at least 20%.
Road transport prices rose in December on the French domestic market, driven by spot prices during the end-of-year peak season.
Slightly more sustained demand, along with the caution of the shipping companies about returning to the Suez Canal, brought some life back into the Asia-Europe spot market in December.
The question as to whether or not shipping will return to the Suez Canal is so fundamental that it is totally dominating discussion of the future of the container shipping sector in 2026.
In November, road transport in France experienced a period of fragile stabilisation, marked by rising costs and sluggish demand for the season.
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European road freight transport experienced a difficult year in 2025, against a backdrop of sluggish demand.
The shipping companies tried to raise freight rates in the final weeks of the year.
The French economy is showing resilience, despite an uncertain context.
Spanish road freight companies recorded growth in transported volumes during the first two quarters of 2025.
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The shipping companies are trying to impose increases in freight rates for the two final months of the year.
Political chaos in France has plunged the economy into a slump and raised fears of a collapse.
The shipping companies should be able to stay in profit in 2025, thanks to their performances in the first half.
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In August 2025, prices plummeted in the French road freight transport market.
The resumption of the trade war generated a surge in activity in the first half of 2025, by anticipation.
The additional customs duties imposed by the United States has started to affect cargo volumes and freight rates.
Road freight transport prices in France rose by 1.3% in July, driven by rising diesel prices.
In a context of sluggish demand, freight rates in container shipping are falling or at best stabilising depending on the market.
Five years after Brexit, the UK economy has not collapsed, but trade in goods has suffered, which has had an impact on the transport and logistics sector.
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In 2024, the freight rates increased in air and sea transport, while they stagnated in European road.
The freight transport market in France is suffering from numerous crippling uncertainties...
Spanish maritime and airport traffic increased significantly in 2024.
Military action in the Middle East did little to destabilise container freight rates in June.
In 2024, road and rail freight transport in Spain experienced diametrically opposed developments...
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Road transport prices have risen in May, despite low oil prices and declining activity.
The reduction in customs duties between the United States and China has provisionally revived ordering on the Asia-US...
The dynamism of the Spanish economy helped maintain road freight rates in 2024.
Road transport prices continued to fall in April, driven by the drop in oil prices. The decline in volumes is worrying in the longer term ...
Overall, the container shipping market kept a relatively cool head in April ...
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Road freight transport prices fell again in March. But this is mainly due to the drop in energy prices, which is very good news for carriers.
The prospect of a “double penalty” plunges the markets for freight rates into an erratic and hesitant state.
Transport prices fell very slightly in February on a month-on-month basis. Economic uncertainty has entered a new dimension...
After suffering a fall in January, ocean freight rates stabilised in February, as demand was maintained by fears of additional customs tariffs in the United States.
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The Spanish freight transport market has been attracting increased investor interest during the last two years.
Road transport prices fell quite significantly in January. Demand for transport continues to decline across France.
Economists predict a stable growth rate for the global economy in 2025 but highlight the very random nature of forecasts in the current context.
Ocean freight rates started to fall on most major routes in January, as the Chinese New Year approached.
The global air cargo industry broke traffic records in 2024. Cargo revenues are on the rise again, and the trend is expected to continue in 2025.
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Transport prices remained stagnant in December. The underlying trend indicates an inexorable fall in prices.
European road transport is expected to experience a slight recovery in 2025, following a notable slowdown over the past 2 years.
The month of December has brought an end to a year which turned out more favourably than expected for container shipping operators.
Shipping companies are undeniably facing an increase in operating costs.
Against all expectations, road transport prices rose again in November.
2024 has been marked by disruption in the Red Sea, which, ironically, has rescued the financial results of the shipping companies.
Demand for road transport remains weak, in a gloomy context for the European economy.
The prospect of an increase in customs duties is currently pushing freight rates up on lines serving the United States.
February 2025 will mark the start of a restructuring of the global container shipping market.
The Spanish authorities have launched a review process of port governance.
Uncertainty seems to be overwhelming all players in the transport sector. Prices are still falling in October 2024.
The shipping companies are trying to stop the downward slide in container shipping freight rates but with little success.
Contracts rates index flat while the spot index falls. Overall both the spot and contracts rates indexes have fallen year on year.
Transport prices fell sharply in September, in an uncertain political and economic landscape.
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French road transport seems to have benefited from an "enchanted interlude" of the Olympic Games in August.
Attacks in the Red Sea are continuing to disrupt shipping activities, but spot rates are stationary.
In 2023, port and air traffic evolved contradictorily in Spain: a decline for the first and a sharp increase for the second.
Road transport prices on the French market increased by more than 2% in July month-on-month.
Peaks appear to have been reached in spot freight rates on the Asia-Europe route, despite continuing tension in the Red Sea.
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Italy can count on a rather dynamic transport and logistics sector to contribute to the development of its economy.
The political situation in France has somewhat brought the road transport market there to a standstill.
The slowdown in economic activity which began in 2022 continued in 2023.
Road transport prices in Spain have held up relatively well in the domestic market.
Maritime freight rates continued to climb for much of June before plateauing.
The world's major economies will have to address the Red Sea blockage in order to bring down sea freight rates.
Transport prices are not benefiting from the natural tension created by numerous bank holidays and long weekends.
Freight rates continued to climb, more because of the geopolitical situation than excessive demand.
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As a passage by the Cape of Good Hope becomes commonplace, a certain strain on capacity is being felt.
Road transport prices in France fell in April 2024 by another 1.3% month-on-month.
Road freight transport prices in France stopped falling in February, but the sector remains in turmoil.
Traffic is still being disrupted in the Red Sea, but this has not prevented freight rates between Asia and Europe from flattening out.
Prices continued their long decline in March 2024, a sign that the volumes to be transported are still not picking up.
The rise in freight rates in the Asia-Europe trade is slowing but transpacific rates are continuing to climb.
The drop in demand, blockades, and sluggish economic prospects are plunging French transport into a slump.
After having registered good results during the pandemic, particularly in 2021, the industry faced challenges in 2022.
World maritime trade is unsettled in this early part of the year, with geopolitical uncertainty the main factor.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
Unsurprisingly, road transport prices continued to fall in December on the French market
December 2023 was marked by the start of a recovery in freight rates, after a particularly bearish year...
The industry is facing major challenges: the economic downturn, the unpredictability of costs & decarbonisation.
The industry is facing numerous potential sources of inflation and instability. Freight rates will certainly be higher in 2024.
In an extremely gloomy atmosphere, road freight transport prices continued to fall on the French market.
With falling demand for transport and rising operating costs, the balance of power is once again favouring the shippers.
Freight rates remained critical for the shipping companies, and geopolitical tensions complicated their operations.
Shipping prices, once at record highs in 2022, dropped due to economic instability and market oversupply.
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Road transport prices on the French market fell slightly in October 2023 compared to the previous month but remain at a high level.
The first signs of a return to growth in demand has halted the erosion of ocean freight rates.
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The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
Despite a complicated economic situation, transport prices seem definitively to be heading towards the summits in September.
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In August, French transport players were caught between the rise of diesel prices and the decline in volumes.
Month after month, it is becoming increasingly clear that the recovery in the Chinese economy.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
BAROMETER. Transport prices in France grew by more than 2% month-on-month in July.
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The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the vulnerability of global trade and supply chains.
The slowdown in the Spanish economy in 2022 has weighed on the development of road and rail freight transport.
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Most of the world's leading transport and logistics companies experienced strong growth in their financial results in 2022.
Road transport rates fell in June 2023, as did costs, in a morose economic climate. Market consolidation picked up speed.
The first half was a very morose one for the container shipping companies and the big NVOCCs.
Road transport prices in France rose by 1.1% in May, as public holidays led to a concentration of demand.
BAROMETER. Shipping companies are slowing down their ships to reduce overcapacity.
Road transport prices rose slightly in April month-on-month, in a difficult market. The situation of carriers is very variable.
The fall in ocean freight marked time in April and supply chain reliability started to recover.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
BAROMETER. March is following the same pattern as February. Firstly, inflation continued to rise.
Road freight transport accounts for almost three quarters of the total goods transported by land in Germany.
The container shipping sector is still in the woes. The fall in freight rates has now spread to the transatlantic trades.
The impact of the rise in diesel prices and decrease in transported volumes explain this observation.
Spot rates for goods leaving China are now lower than contract rates but, on other routes, prices have stayed at acceptable levels.
Global air freight volumes dropped below their pre-pandemic levels in 2022 to 250.2 billion tonne-kilometres.
Road transport prices in France slowed down in January 2023, as in the previous month.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
The deterioration of the economy will have an impact on volumes, at least in the first half of the year.
Road transport prices in France started to fall again in December 2022 according to the Upply Freight Index.
With demand for goods from China still very weak, the shipping companies have cancelled a large number of port calls.
The year 2023 will mark the end of windfall profits for shipping companies, in a context of profound transformation of freight flows.
The Upply Freight Index shows a month-on-month rise in road transport prices in France in November 2022.
Ocean freight rates are continuing to fall, and the quality of shipping services is still lacking, even if port congestion is easing.
The moment has come to devote some time for the traditional exercise of the year's assessment.
The fall in spot rates in the transpacific and Asia-Europe trades has speeded up since the summer of 2022.
Asia-Europe freight rates suggest that shipping lines are heading for a runway excursion rather than a soft landing.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
The Upply Freight Index demonstrates the resistance in road transport prices in France, despite a decelerating economy.
The Covid-19 crisis has undoubtedly shattered the traditional cycles of containerised maritime shipping.
For the first time this year, road transport prices fall according to the Upply Freight Index.
August results have confirmed the fall in Western demand and the drop in spot rates for goods from China.
Road freight transport prices are still on the rise, with +2.2% growth in July compared to June.
The beginning of the summer saw a reasonable erosion in sea freight rates from Asia.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
The transport and logistics sector is a major player in the Spanish economy, which today has a European dimension.
The economic and operating environment in 2021 was clearly beneficial to the global leaders in the transport and logistics sector.
FAK rates have fallen below the psychological bar of 5 digits for imports from Asia to Northern Europe.
With a further 0.8% increase in June, road transport prices in France are soaring higher and higher.
Road transport prices rose by a further 0.7% in May compared to April, according to the Upply Freight Index.
Despite weakening demand, the shipping companies kept control of the market in May.
In the rail freight transport sector in Spain, the most important development has been the liberalisation decided at an EU level.
The shipping companies have been able to maintain an average price increase despite a fall in cargo volumes.
With a further increase of 4.4% in April, road transport prices in France have never reached such heights.
The ports play a key role in Spain's external trade since they handle 60% of exports and 85% of imports.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
Unsurprisingly, road transport prices in France skyrocketed in March according to our Upply barometer.
The war in Ukraine is now the focus of attention, due to the human tragedies that are taking place.
Spanish Road freight transport (RFT) is a key sector of its economy and a major player in Europe.
Road transport prices in France rose again in February as shown by our Upply barometer.
As the pandemic continues to block any change in the situation in Asia and the war in Ukraine has come as a new blow.
Road transport prices in France increased again in January 2022, as indicated by our Upply barometer.
MONTHLY BAROMETER. Ocean freight rates increased slightly again in January before the Chinese New Year.
In 2021, global air freight volumes overtook their pre-pandemic level and freight rates broke all records.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
European road freight transport should benefit from a continuingly dynamic economy in 2022.
The shipping companies want and seem to hold all the cards they need to do even better in 2022.
Road transport prices in France rose again in December 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
Freight rates started climbing again on the major East-West trade routes in December after the slight reduction seen in November.
Road transport prices in France rose significantly in November 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
Demand seems to be easing, leading to a decrease in ocean freight rates for containers in November.
The month of October saw a dip in FAK container shipping rates except in the transpacific trades.
Road transport prices in France stagnated again in October 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
The Transport Intelligence, IRU and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
The world economy has confirmed that it is in a V-shaped recovery process, which is supporting global trade.
One thing is clear in this post-summer holiday period: shippers are having to pay a lot more for services.
Road transport prices in France rose only very slightly again in September 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
The shipping companies look likely to change the rules as the new annual freight contract negotiating season.
Road transport prices in France rose very slightly in August 2021 up 0.1%, according to our Upply Freight Index.
Inflationary trends and the approach of the peak season mean that any downward movement is excluded.
Global air freight volumes exceeded 2019 pre-Covid levels by 8% in the first half of 2021.
French road transportation prices fell by 0.5% in July 2021, according to our Upply Freight Index.
An increase in ships' average speeds, demand which has reached a plateau compared to the growth of the first half.
The Transport Intelligence and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
In the first half of 2021, the economy has recovered significantly. Shipping and air freight prices remain above pre-crisis levels.
Ocean freight rates continued to rise in June on all major routes. A soft landing is starting to look likely, however, in the summer.
Road transportation prices in France rose by 0.8% in June 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
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The rise is being fuelled by strong Western demand against a background of growing uncertainty.
In 2011, the China Railway Express was just a route for shipping laptops from southwestern China to Germany.
Road transportation prices in France rose by 0.3% in May according to our monthly Upply barometer.
The rise in freight rates is continuing and is now affecting virtually all maritime trade routes.
Road transportation prices resumed their rise in France in April 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
The Transport Intelligence and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
The health crisis plunged most industrialised countries into a major economic recession.
Cargo volumes returned to pre-Covid levels, helped by the continuing disorganisation of supply chains.
Helped by strong demand, container shipping freight rates stayed at high levels in March.
Road transportation prices remained almost stable (-0.2%) in France in March 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
The fall in demand generally seen at the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations did not occur this year.
Road transport prices stayed stable in France in February 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
In this favourable climate, transport prices remain at high levels even if they have shown a seasonal reduction.
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The air freight industry registered a 10.6% drop in demand in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
French road transport prices increased by 1.2% in January 2021, according to our Upply barometer.
The Transport Intelligence and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
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The Covid-19 pandemic will continue to mark road freight transportation in this new year.
2020 will remain in the annals as an exceptional year which has been full of surprises.
The Transport Intelligence and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.
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The Transport Intelligence and Upply report devoted to the evolution of road freight rates.