Global box growth slumps to 10-year low
Transpacific turmoil takes its toll as containerised trade growth brakes sharply to less than 1% in 2019 compared with about 4% the previous year. The figure is the lowest since the fallout of the global financial crisis in 2009
The impact of the US-Sino trade war was telling last year, resulting in a 2.5% drop in transpacific traffic, although strong trade performances elsewhere helped soften the blow