Experts are cautiously optimistic about the apparent global trade recovery being tempered by industry, economic, and consumer dynamics. There's no doubt about it - the global recession has resulted in historic losses for the world trade community. In fact, ocean container carriers suffered a whopping $15 billion in losses in 2009, reports Paul Bingham, managing director of global commerce and trade for IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. "This is unprecedented for the industry in terms of percentage losses of total gross revenues," says Bingham. "But the industry also never faced a contracting world economy either and even in the deepest of previous global recessions, the world economy still had been able to grow slowly. But this recent recession produced significant and historic losses of double-digit declines in volume in 2009."
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机译：专家们对全球贸易复苏明显受到行业，经济和消费者动态抑制的看法持谨慎乐观的态度。毫无疑问-全球经济衰退给世界贸易界造成了历史性损失。事实上，IHS Global Insight位于马萨诸塞州列克星敦的全球贸易和贸易总经理Paul Bingham报告称，2009年，海洋集装箱船承运人遭受了高达150亿美元的损失。宾汉姆说：“就总收入的百分比损失而言，这对行业来说是前所未有的。” “但是，该行业也从未面临过萎缩的世界经济，即使在以前最严重的全球衰退中，世界经济仍然能够缓慢增长。但是，最近的这次衰退造成了历史性的，数量巨大的两位数的下降。 2009。”
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