Like last year, the World Trade Organisation now expects trade volumes to grow only slightly faster than GDP in 2013: the slowing of trade volumes that was manifest in 2012 has therefore continued into 2013. Therein lays a primary cause of the current difficult circumstances of world shipping.
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