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It continues the trend by sea negative of the containerized trade
Fifth consecutive month of contraction of the volumes transported from the line services
December 11, 2012
According to the surveys of Container Trades Statistics (CTS), also October has been revealed to be a month negative (the fifth consecutive one) for the navigation companies that operate line services. The world-wide commerce of goods by sea containerized, having totaled a total volume 10.466.000 pairs to container teu, in fact has recorded deterioration of 1.5% regarding last September and a contraction pairs to 6.5% regarding the peak of 11.193.600 teu last May, let alone a decrease of 5.5% regarding the volume of October 2011.
The slow down of the economies of the developed Countries - the society evidences - has remained unchanged, to ulterior confirmation that the increase of the containerized volumes recorded in the first part of the year represented alone a illusory resumption. In particular - CTS finds - the United States are still to the taken ones with the fiscal cliff, while Europe must still act effectively on the increasing level of the sovereign debit.
Moreover CTS emphasizes as the picture of the containerized traffics is worse than what it seems, since October is still a period of tip for the commercial exchanges of Europe and the United States that therefore would have had to last May record an increase, while on the contrary the goods in container sent by all the Countries overseas in America North is diminished of 3.7% regarding september, coming down to a volume pairs to 1.795.500 teu (- 5% regarding the peak of May 2012), and those sent in Europe are diminished of 4.5% coming down to 1.623.300 teu (- 10.5% regarding the peak).
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According to the surveys of Container Trades Statistics (CTS), also October has been revealed to be a month negative (the fifth consecutive one) for the navigation companies that operate line services. The world-wide commerce of goods by sea containerized, having totaled a total volume 10.466.000 pairs to container teu, in fact has recorded deterioration of 1.5% regarding last September and a contraction pairs to 6.5% regarding the peak of 11.193.600 teu last May, let alone a decrease of 5.5% regarding the volume of October 2011.
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