For several months, the price of oil has steadily increased, reaching its highest level since 2014. In light of this increase, which is much higher than expected (more than 20% compared to the beginning of the year), since June 1st shipping companies have applied an "Emergency Bunker Surchage", which increases overall transport costs. For the [...]
The problem of pollution caused by maritime transport is still prevalent. Indeed, although being one of the most used means of transport (more than 90% of goods throughout the world is shipped by sea), it unfortunately remains the most polluting. The main reason for this pollution is heavy fuel oil, the fuel used by large [...]
Recently, IATA (International Air Transport Association) pubished their statistics about the growth of air freight markets in February 2018. These results indicate a 6.8 % increase in the request, measured in FTK (tons-kilometers of goods) compared to February 2017. This is the greatest beginning of the year since 2015 ! The air freight capacity [...]