Global supply chains recently faced widespread disruptions. The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions in 2021 and 2022, while in late 2023, geopolitical incidents in the Red Sea and water shortages...
Early data pointed to a continued mild recovery in goods trade in 2024, with mixed performance across industries and regions. Trade in services grew in the first quarter of 2024, with significant increases...
The World Bank has published the Logistics Performance Index since 2007. The Logistics Performance Index used to be based exclusively on perception ratings from a global survey of logistics professionals...
Goods trade remained weak in the fourth quarter of 2023, capping the slowest year of growth for global commerce outside of a recession in the past 50 years. Trade in services grew robustly in the fourth...
Global goods trade picked up slightly in September and October 2023 amid signs ofglobal demand recovery but remained below levels in the previous year. Services trade continued to recover, and travel...
Global goods trade contracted further in the second quarter of 2023 as demand weakened in all regions amid tight monetary conditions, lingering inflationary pressures, and elevated geopolitical tensions...
Amazonas is the most industrialized state among Brazil’s nine states of the Legal Amazon (here called Amazonia). It is supported by a special economic zone (SEZ), the Zona Franca de Manaus (ZFM)...
Amazonas is the most industrialized state among Brazil’s nine states of the Legal Amazon (here called Amazonia). It is supported by a special economic zone (SEZ), the Zona Franca de Manaus (ZFM)...
The key messages of this newsletter include: Trade expanded briskly in 2022 despite the invasion of Ukraine and growing global macroeconomic imbalances. The global impact of the war quickly dissipated...
New export orders have been shrinking since March 2022, amid cooling in China’s imports, war-induced disruptions in the trade of fuel and agricultural products, rising inflationary pressures, ...
The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) the conflict in Ukraine has already disrupted shipping logistics in the Black Sea area and raised futures prices of fuels and key agricultural products...
The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Merchandise trade strengthened in November 2021 despite persistent value-chain bottlenecks and logistics constraints; (ii) Services trade is finally...
The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Global merchandise trade has stabilized at levels above pre-pandemic but hides divergent trends for quantities (weakening since early 2021) and prices...
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...
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...
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...