The whining decreases due to the feast and growing global uncertainty
It slowed in the global load that started in the last half of March in the 14th week (March 31 – April 6), according to the latest weekly numbers of Worldac Market Data. After a -1 % decrease in the previous week, the colors of the air freight around the world decreased by -7 %, a week in the week (WOW). It was about half of this due to a seasonal decrease in reservations during the holiday malfunction at the end of Ramadan, while the other half reflects uncertainty all over the world on a commercial war resulting from the last wave of American definitions and removing exemptions from the United States for shipments from China and Hong Kong. Although the demand for demand, its sizes are still the highest level +6 % of the same week last year.
In the midst of this total shrinkage in the whining, the average rate of the average worldwide is still possible, but rather has continued its upward trend since the beginning of March, an increase of +2 %, Wow, and +3 % based on the comparison between the last two weeks with the previous two weeks (2Wo2W). Compared to the same week last year (YOY), the rates are 3 % higher, in line with the past four weeks, based on more than 500,000 weekly transactions covered by WorldADACD data.
The latest weekly numbers conducted by the original area shows a decrease in all fields, in the 14th week, the most prominent of which is with a percentage of two numbers that reduce East and South Asia Medium (MESA, -24 %) and Ex-AFRICA (-21 %), but also to a large (-7 %) (-7 %). The former America in the north (-2 %). Calfation prices all over the world increased by +1 %, Wow, to $ 2.73 per kilo, which is the highest level seen since the beginning of the year, while the average total rates worldwide increased, based on a mixture of breaks and resources, +2 % to $ 2.52 per kilo, an increase of 3 % on an annual basis.
Seasons
The holiday related to the Eid Al-Fitr festival at the end of Ramadan led to some sharp declines in the whining in the week 14 Pakistan (-50 %), Egypt (-45 %), Bangladesh (-46 %), Indonesia (-43 %), United Arab Emirates (-32 %), Malaysia (-27 %) (-27 %). A similar pattern was observed last year, when the holiday occurred in the 15th week (April 8-14). The immediate rates of Mesa’s assets to Europe decreased slightly compared to the previous week, in general by -3 % to $ 2.43, and are now less than 28 % lower than the high levels of last year, when the disturbances that tend to ship the goods and the laboratory capacity related to disorders in the region were leading to the historical rises.
The demands Ex-APAC in the United States reduces
While the demand outside the region remained somewhat strong during the first quarter of 2025, as shown in the report of last week (+3 %, YY), we may see a different direction to move forward as it seems that global uncertainty begins to influence international trade flows. Most of the fateful of the presence of the escalating definitions between the United States and China, but the repeated changes in the American position on the definitions elsewhere prompted companies to postpone the decisions while the levels of inventory are high from the front load so that there is some clarity to plan their following moves.
Besides the lunar dayn, the 14th week shows a week decrease a week (-1 %) from the former China and Hong Kong to the United States for the first time since the beginning of the year, although the sizes are still 3 % higher than the same week last year. Flows from China and Hong Kong to Los Angeles show a 5 % more clear decrease, WOW, equally with folders 12 months ago. Other countries in the Asia Pacific region have also witnessed a significant decrease, especially in the previous Japan and the previous Speaker (both of them -7 %, Wow).
Despite the weak demand from all areas of the original, a week, the average rate of each area has increased except for a 2 % decrease of CSA. The previous pricing in the Asia Pacific region jumped +4 %, Wow, with the average price of the idea from the area +5 %, to $ 3.94. With the start of the new US tariffs that were not suspended for 90 days on Wednesday, April 9, the effect is expected to be more clear on some commercial flows in the report next week.
