According to the latest figures from Container Trades Statistics (CTS), at 46.42 million TEUs, the United States recorded a 5% drop in containerized volume over the past year. A decrease of 2.42 million TEUs attributable in particular to imports, which fell by 3.5%, with nearly 2 M TEUs, to more than 32 M TEUs. Exports fell by 5.5% to 13.63 M TEU.
Finally, the intra-US domestic market fell sharply during the period. A loss of 17.1% which brought it close to the 250,000 TEU mark.
On imports, the fall, which amounted precisely in one year to 1.93 M TEUs, lowered the number of TEUs to 32.54 M TEUs. North America saw its containerized volumes from the Far East drop by 6.8%. Flows which stood at 22.17 M TEU instead of 23.8 M TEU in 2021.
Falling imports from Europe
As for the number of containers imported from Europe, it fell by 2.3%, dropping in one year from 5.62 M TEU to 5.49 M TEU. Among the other two regions of the world that weigh heavily in trade with the United States are Latin America (2.64 M TEU, down 2.8%) and the Middle East-East-India sector (1. 83 M TEU), which decreased by 5.2% last year.
By contrast, sub-Saharan Africa was not affected by the slowdown in trade with North America. These increased by 2.8%. However, this growth leaves this region at a very modest level since these volumes only amounted to 165,800 TEU last year.
