7 Trends Impacting Shipping’s Future
Seaborne trade expanded by a healthy 4% in 2017, the fastest growth in five years, with a similar growth forecast this year, according to UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2018. Volumes across all segments are set to grow in 2018, with containerized and dry bulk commodities expected to record the fastest growth at the expense of tanker volumes. Healthy trade growth aside, the 2018 edition of the report also looked at the key opportunities and challenges faced by the shipp