The total mainlane container trade
is estimated to have grown by 9.0 per cent between
2007 and 2014 while trade volumes on the nonmainlane
trades are said to have expanded by 45 per
cent during the same period. Consequently, the share
of world trade held by the mainlane trades fell from 36.0 per cent in 2007 to 30.0 per cent in 2014. At the
same time, intraregional (led by intra-Asian trade) and
South–South trade accounted for 40 per cent of global
containerized volumes in 2014, followed by flows on the
mainlane East–West (30 per cent), North–South (17 per
cent) and secondary East–West trade routes (13 per
cent) (Clarksons Research, 2015f) (figure 1.6 (c)).