Drewry: Shipping benefits from free trade agreements
Free trade agreements, such as the one recently concluded between the United States and 12 Pacific nations, will increase container freight between the contracting countries, notes Drewry, encouraging investments in countries with free trade agreements.
JOHANNES HARTKOPF-MIKKELSEN
Covering 40 percent of world trade, the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest free trade agreement (FTA) signed since the NAFTA agreement on free trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada in 1994. In the long term, this spells good news for container carriers, say Drewry Maritime Research in a study of the consequences of recent free trade agreements.
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