Stagnation of the foreign trade for marine and aerial way of the USA and the EU



In the first trimester of this year the foreign trade of the USA and the EU realized for marine and aerial way, measured in tons of goods transported, has turned out tinning beneath of the levels pre-crisis of june 2008. It evidences the last survey on the data of the world-wide exchanges of the goods elaborated from the International Transport Forum (ITF), than precise as the general picture of the total transport goods does not show some variation regarding the last trimester of 2013.

In particular, also in the first three months of the 2014 imports and the exports by sea they have continued to show divergent tendencies: if the import marine pre-crisis is stagnated under the levels, the marine exports of the European Union and the United States are gone up respective of +29% and +23% regarding the peak pre-crisis also having shown signs of slow down for the USA.

The total foreign trade for aerial way is of the EU and of the USA he has turned out inferior respective of the -4% and the -3% regarding the levels pre-crisis.

The International Transport Forum has emphasized that the total exports of the European Union and the United States towards Asia and the nations of the BRICS show a continuous increase and continuous Asia to being the locomotive of the increase. The ITF has specified that the total foreign trade for marine and aerial way of China has turned out advanced, in terms of value, respective of +55% and +59% regarding the peak pre-crisis and that the imports by sea towards China from Europe and Nord America have exceeded the increase of the exports and they have been pairs to +85% and +75% over the peak pre-crisis. Also the imports for aerial way have recorded an analogous increase.

The analysis of the ITF finds moreover as the commerce intra-Asian, that it represents almost the half of the total foreign trade of China in terms of value, continues to being supported. In particular, the foreign trade by sea of China with ASEAN and the nations of southern Asia have reached quota +126% and +39% over the levels pre-crisis, while the foreign trade for aerial way respective is increased of +30% and +88% over the peak pre-crisis. The exchanges for marine, aerial and street way of China with the near nations of CSI and with Russia have grown considerably, while continuous the railway cargo to stagnate under the levels pre-crisis.

At last the terrestrial transport of the goods reflects divergent tendencies between the developed economies and those emerged. The rail shipment goods in the area EU remains of the peak pre-crisis beneath and is tinning on the levels pre-crisis in the United States. The transport goods on the road in the EU remains of the -11% under to the levels pre-crisis. The increase is marked in emerging markets (the data in this case is reported to the fourth trimester of 2013): the transport volumes goods for railway way in Russia and Turkey have turned out of +5% and in China of +20% over the levels pre-crisis, while the transported volumes of goods on the road in Russia have reached +14% to above of the peak the pre-crisis.