Global Marine Freight
Globaldata's Global Marine Freight Report provides key insights into the marine freight industry, including market value, category and geography segmentation.
The global marine freight sector saw a decline in growth in 2020, however at an improved rate to the previous year. The future of the sector is expected to be volatile, with a huge boom in growth in 2021 followed by negative growth over the remainder of the forecast period to 2025. The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly impacted the marine freight sector on a global scale, The United Nations Trade and Development Division estimates that the world’s ports handle around 70% of global merchandise by value, meaning that marine freight is particularly affected by disruptive factors such as pandemics.
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Industry performance is projected to decline, with a five-year CAGR of 5.7%. The period of 2025 to 2020. This is expected to value the industry at $770 billion by the end of 2025. By comparison, manufacturing in the Asia Pacific region will decline by 0.3% CARC and manufacturing in the United States will increase by 1%. The CAGR was 4.3% over the same period, reaching $ 234.5 billion and $162.6 billion in 2025, respectively.
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- Market value: The global marine freight industry shrank by 4.3% in 2020 to reach a value of $582.6 billion. The compound annual growth rate of the industry in the period 2016–20 was 6%
- Category segmentation: Containerized is the largest segment of the global marine freight industry, accounting for 68.4% of the industry's total value. The Dry bulk segment accounts for the remaining 31.6% of the industry
- Buyer power: Players in the global marine freight sector cater primarily to large corporate customers that import and export huge quantities of raw materials like chemicals, petroleum products, coal, and a range of other commodity goods
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