in goods grew from 23.0% to 25.5% of the 1% (UNCTAD, 2025a). The global Container ever, that the growth of goods trade remained limited in the LDCs, which saw US$349.3 bil- lion in imports and US$274.5 billion in exports of global merchandise trade growth. The export in 2024, rising slightly to 1.41% and 1.12% 2024 were basically the same compared to 2023, 2025a), contributing more than 60% to global trade growth. The share of developing countries in global trade kept increasing. From 2015 to 2024, their proportion in global trade in goods gish. In 2024, global foreign direct investment rose from 32.6% to 45.8%, while in global trade (FDI) as a whole grew by 4% to US$1.51 tril- in services it increased from 28.0% to 29.8% lion. However, after excluding flows routed global container traffic. Data for the North range summarizes the throughputs of the ports of Le Havre, Zeebrugge, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen/Bremerhaven, and Hamburg. 2015=100. Source: Global Trade Outlook and Statistics, April 2025