Asia-Europe trades to remain sluggish

While global container growth shows signs of recovery, Asia-Europe trades will likely be behind the pack, the Container Supply Chain conference at TOC Europe hears

Developments in the critically important Asia-Europe trades provided much of the focus of Day 2 of TOC Europe 2015 in Rotterdam.

Michel Looten, Director, Maritime, Seabury Group noted that deepsea containerised growth in 2014 returned to a relatively healthy state, with exports from Asia the main driver. China’s export growth alone was responsible for almost 50% of all teu growth last year.