Transport, logistics and trade facilitation

We support countries in implementing sustainable and resilient freight transportation and logistics services to enhance trade.

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Review of Maritime Transport

The Review of Maritime Transport has been published annually since 1968. This flagship report provides an analysis of structural and cyclical changes affecting seaborne trade, ports and shipping, as well as an extensive collection of statistics.

Over 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea, and the percentage is even higher for most developing countries.

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News

A container ship in the port of Valencia, Spain

How to cushion consumers from high maritime freight rates

By Jan Hoffmann, Head of Trade Logistics, UNCTAD

27 Jul 2021

Making trade information portals more relevant and sustainable

By Yann Duval, Simon Hardy and Kjartan Sørensen.

20 Jul 2021

Vulnerable countries need help to adjust to carbon cuts in maritime transport

Technical and financial assistance to poorer nations will help alleviate the costs of a planned transition to low-carbon shipping.

5 Jul 2021

Leading the push for a sustainable ocean economy

Policymakers and experts call on UNCTAD to play a leading role in research, finance and technical assistance to conserve and sustainably use the ocean, seas and marine resources.

22 Jun 2021

Project

Transport and trade connectivity in the age of pandemics

Commercialization of the Trans-Saharan Road Corridor

Transport and Trade Facilitation

The Series includes analytical reports on a wide range of issues in the areas of trade facilitation, international transport, and logistics. It complements the annual Review of Maritime Transport, and the quarterly Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter.

Topics covered in recent years include digitalization of logistics, national trade facilitation committees, shipping, climate change adaptation, road safety, port performance, cabotage, transit, and the relationship between trade facilitation and development.

Recent publications

UNCTAD Assessment of the Impact of the IMO Short-Term GHG Reduction Measure on States

Small island developing states: Maritime transport in the era of a disruptive pandemic - empower states to fend against disruptions to maritime transportation systems, their lifeline to the world

Container shipping in times of COVID-19: Why freight rates have surged and implications for policy makers

COVID-19 and maritime transport: Impact and responses

COVID-19 implications for commercial contracts: Carriage of goods by sea and related cargo claims

COVID-19 implications for commercial contracts: International sale of goods on CIF and FOB terms

Transport and trade facilitation newsletter

The UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter is a quarterly bulletin on current topics and projects in trade facilitation and international transport.

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