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The WTO Goods Trade Barometer, an indicator for world trade, provides for real-time information on the trajectory of merchandise trade. The latest Goods Trade Barometer published on August 23rd was below the recent trend line for merchandise trade: although the

  The UN Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched a new package aimed at building resilience across the maritime supply chain, following a series of crisis – including COVID-19 and the Ukraine crisis – that have highlighted the weaknesses

Brussels, Geneva and London, 20 May 2021 – The leaders of three major international organisations, representing transport workers, operators and shippers have launched a charter to improve how truck and van drivers are treated at collection and delivery sites. Globally,

30 April, 2021, Global Shippers’ Alliance hold "SUEZ CANAL: what else for global shippers?" webinar. The scope of the webinar covered the recent events triggered from the Suez Canal blockage and observations on how the level playing field between maritime

The Federal Maritime Commission met virtually and in closed session on the 7th of April 2021 to discuss developments in the ongoing Fact Finding 29 investigation of challenges to the freight delivery system and possible Shipping Act violations, and to

25th of March 2021, European Shippers’ Council voiced shippers’ position on unreliability and peaking prices in the maritime container transport at the meeting organised by the European Commission. The Maritime Forum gathered maritime stakeholders - shippers, freight forwarders, carriers, port