The pandemic changed the total number of port-pair connections on the Europe-North America East Coast (NAEC) trade, according to Sea-Intelligence report.
In the first half of 2019, the total number of port-pair connections was relatively stable, hovering within 600-800 connections. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, seems to have hit North Europe-NAEC the most, as the total number of connections dropped significantly, before increasing back to the pre-pandemic level in 2023.
On the other hand, Sea-Intelligence analysts note that Mediterranean-NAEC did not exhibit the same decline, and post-pandemic, there is a clear level shift in favour of Med-NAEC, with the post-pandemic figure slightly higher than the pre-pandemic baseline.
