News / Gloomy picture painted for container shipping is lightening, says Alphaliner

19/10/2017

China today reported a 6.8% year-on-year increase in GDP for the third quarter – a slight decline on the 6.9% growth in the first half of the year, but nonetheless meeting government targets.

Retail sales grew by 10.3% in September, while factory output, a key metric for container lines, grew 6.6% in the same month.

Carriers should also be buoyed by recent analysis from Alphaliner which suggests the GDP-teu multiplyer – the relationship between economic growth and container volumes – is on on the ...