ITF: Global trade stagnating

Logistics Management

Friday, December 14, 2012

Global trade stagnated below pre-economic crisis levels through August, according to the International Transport Forum’s December Global Trade and Transport Statistics Brief , released Friday. The briefing indicated total ocean trade remained lower than pre-crisis levels in the European Union and United States (at -2 percent and -10 percent, respectively), according to the ITF’s seasonally adjusted preliminary estimates of goods carried through August 2012. “Exports a...

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