- Sectoral contribution to total percentage of Africa’s service exports 2018 – 25.4%
- 2018 annual growth rate of Africa’s export of transport services – 8.2%.
- Africa’s share of global transport exports is 3.0% and imports is at 5.1%
- Global exports of transport services generated $1.011 trillion in 2019
- Leading global exporters of transport are the EU, USA, Singapore, China & UK.
- Leading global importers of transport are the EU, USA, China, India & Singapore.
- About half of global trade in transport services is driven by trade in goods.
- Freight transport services are easily affected by developments in merchandise trade. Globally, all modes of freight transport services, representing 47.3% of transport exports, declined by 2% in 2019, to US$ 486 billion.
