OECD says freight volumes could quadruple by 2050

Thursday, May 03, 2012

A new report, Transport Outlook 2012 , prepared for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's International Transport Forum in Leipzig this week, says that while the short-term outlook for trade and freight is bleak, "the conditions for returning to growth do exist." "The impact of the current economic crises could well be a permanent loss of output rather than a direct return to pre-crises growth paths but global passenger transport volumes could grow to be...

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