The Economist (Intelligence Unit) 2014 - Global Merchandise Trade Scenarios. Methodology

Developed in October 2013. Pages 12.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) was commissioned by the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group to develop a dataset on global merchandise trade in order to support the drafting of the book Creating Global Opportunities: Maersk Line in Containerisation 1973–2013. In order to support this debate, the EIU was subsequently tasked to independently develop three scenarios for global merchandise trade out to 2030.The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is an independent business within the Economist Group.
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