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To January world-wide the containerized exports have recorded an increment of the 1.5% year on year
According to the surveys of CTS, the data it discounts a decrease of 2.3% regarding December 2012
March 12, 2013
According to the surveys of the society Container Trades Statistics (CTS), last January world-wide the total volume of the goods exported in container has been pairs to 10.494.300 teu, with a decrease of 2.3% respect to a volume pairs to 10.738.066 teu in December 2012.
CTS has found that the total decrease can not signal a meaningful worsening of the total economy as the volume of the precedence December month has been relatively consisting; moreover January stretches to being a month with a particularly contained volume for this that it regards the imports towards Asia in sight of the traditional Chinese New Year's Day, that is a period of two weeks of relative inactivity. In the winter months - it has still observed CTS - the question of the consumers is generally inferior regarding the usual, fact that induces the marine carriers to withdraw tonnage for giving course to the winter programs of maintenance of the ships that come correspondents to the basins, to cancel departures and to adapt the ability to the marine services waiting for to enliven consisting cargo volumes less.
I confront last January between the containerized volume of exports and that of January 2012 shows an increase of the 1.5% (increase is pairs to 156.124 teu).
Moreover CTS has announced that last January the total exports from the North America (included those intra-American) towards all other markets is diminished of 7.1% regarding the month precedence coming down to 1.161.900 teu and has turned out inferior of 3.0% regarding January 2012. Instead last January the coming containerized exports from Asia (included those intra-Asians) have totaled of 6.243.700 teu, with a total increment of 3.2% regarding December 2012.
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