Sea freight is reaching Russian ports less and less frequently.
(Photo: imago images/ITAR-TASS)
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt Delivery traffic to Russia plummeted just a few days after Russian troops invaded Ukraine. According to the Chicago supply chain monitoring company Fourkites, imports of consumer goods into the country fell by 27 percent in the first week of the war. In the days that followed, there was another minus in the double-digit percentage range.
The declining trade in goods is by no means only due to consumer goods groups such as H&M, Ikea, Adidas and Apple, which have ceased business in Russia in the past few days to demonstrate solidarity with the invaded Ukraine. The logistics industry itself makes a significant contribution to the delivery stop. The offer for truck journeys to Russia has fallen to a seventh of the pre-war value, reports Germany’s largest freight exchange Timocom from Erkrath near Düsseldorf.
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