- DHL Global Trade Barometer forecasts
accelerating trade growth for Asia’s four largest economies - Air and ocean freight volumes expected to rise
supporting the economic development of South Korea, Japan, China and India
The Asia Pacific region’s booming economy
looks set to power global trade growth in the coming quarter, according to data
from the DHL Global Trade Barometer released by DHL, the world’s leading
logistics company. The DHL Global Trade Barometer, an early indicator of global
trade developments calculated using Artificial Intelligence and Big Data,
predicts an overall positive outlook for all four of Asia’s largest economies.
“Asia’s economies are clambering towards new
levels of growth not seen in recent times,” said Kelvin Leung, CEO, DHL Global
Forwarding Asia Pacific. “The DHL Global Trade Barometer’s latest findings highlight
that Asia’s trade fundamentals — and indeed those of its biggest trade partners
— remain robust enough to warrant optimism in the near-term, particularly those
industries directly involved with manufacturing and production for the region’s
burgeoning consumer base.”
India’s trade growth remains the highest of
the seven economies assessed by the Barometer, driven predominantly by a
sustained appetite for technology, machinery, and raw materials for
infrastructure. “Sustained growth in FDI[1]
continues to drive Indian demand at a rate that domestic production alone
cannot keep pace with,” said George Lawson, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding. “India’s consumption for electronics, for
example, is expected to reach USD 400 billion by 2020, but only USD 100 billion
worth of products can be made locally[2].
We expect India’s economy to continue driving growth not just in Asia but on a
global scale, with its rate of development proving resilient to almost any
challenge.”
The Barometer’s results also suggest that
South Korea and Japan are on track for significant acceleration in trade
growth, even as India and China maintain some of the highest growth rates
amongst the world’s largest economies. Strong growth in ocean freight across
Asia Pacific, coupled with steady or rising air freight traffic in the region’s
bellwether economies, appear to be driven largely by rising trade in industrial
raw materials, capital equipment, and machinery — potentially foreshadowing an
extended period of development for Asian infrastructure, manufacturing, and
domestic consumption.
“Overall, the DHL Global Trade Barometer’s
latest results reveal that economic growth and connectivity have maintained a
strong upward trajectory despite any global uncertainty around free trade,” added
Leung. “It also emphasizes just how interconnected Asia’s economies are to the
rest of the world. For the region’s growth to continue, its logistics and
freight infrastructure must not only provide reliability under all conditions, but
also cater to an increasingly diverse range of industries with fluctuating levels
of growth.”
Developed
jointly by DHL and Accenture, the DHL Global Trade Barometer provides a
quarterly outlook on future trade, taking into consideration the import and
export data of seven large economies: China, South Korea, Germany, India,
Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, these countries
account for 75 percent of world trade, making their aggregated data an
effective bellwether for near-term predictions on global trade. The DHL Global
Trade Barometer, which assesses commodities that serve as the basis for further
industrial production, predicts that global trade will continue to grow in the
next three months, despite slight losses in momentum.
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