The key messages of this newsletter include : Global merchandise trade has stabilized at levels above pre-pandemic ones. Global services trade continues to recover, and it is only now slightly below pre-pandemic...
Merchandise trade has decelerated in recent months. The value of global merchandise trade in July 2021 was 3 percent less than in March 2021 (Figure 1). The stagnation in value terms affects all categories...
Global maritime supply chains continue to experience unprecedented disruptions. Capacity tensions associated with rapid, uneven rising trade demand in some regions have coincided with operational disruptions...
This newsletter on COVID-19 (coronavirus) trade watch for April 2021 has the following sub-headings: (a) Global maritime supply chains continue to experience unprecedented disruptions; (b) Capacity constraints...
This newsletter on COVID-19 trade watch for March 2021 has the following sub-headings: (a) Principal findings; (b) Merchandise trade in focus; (c) Logistics in focus; (d) The Suez incident and (e) Air...
This newsletter on COVID-19 trade watch for February 2021 has the following sub-headings: principal findings; additional findings-merchandise trade; additional findings-services trade; additional findings-logistics;...
Global container shipping capacity remained flat though January 18, 2021, in contrast with the strong recovery observed from April to September 2020. Global merchandise trade has continued to recover in...
Global container shipping carrying capacity remained flat in the most recent data through November 15, continuing the pattern from October and breaking the strong recovery in the spring and summer. In...
Global container shipping capacity began to flatten in October, following the strong recovery trends observed in late spring and summer. Globally, trade carrying capacity (4-week average) is 2.1 percent...
Trade carrying capacity is currently 1.3 percent higher than last year, suggesting that global merchandise trade activity has largely recovered from the Coronavirus (COVID) - induced contraction. Trade...
Merchandise trade showed a strong rebound in June, after declines the previous three months. On a regional basis, strong rebounds in both exports and imports were observed in Europe and Central Asia (including...
Real time indicators show merchandise trade recovering in June and July. Trade data in June, available for 22 countries, show exports were, on average, down 5.8 percent year-on-year (YoY) compared with...
Merchandise trade appears to have bottomed out in April, falling nearly 20 percent year on year (YoY), after a 10 percent decline in March. For the handful of countries with available May data, trade remains...
The contraction in the nominal value of global merchandise trade that began in mid-2018 deepened in March, with global exports of merchandise trade declining by 11.9 percent in March year-on-year (YoY)...
This note, the first of a series of monthly bulletins aiming to track trade and logistics information in real time, documents the beginning of a dramatic drop in international trade as a result of COVID-19...