RATES of unemployment in Spain (26.6 per cent), Greece (26 per cent),
Portugal (56.5 per cent) and Italy (57.6 per cent) have thrown prospects for the Asia-Mediterranean trade lane in 2013 into steep decline.
Northern eurozone states fared better with Germany's unemployment rate at 5.4 per cent and the Netherlands at 5.6 per cent, a difference reflected in the latest Container Trades Statistics data covering November 2012.
Asia-Europe trade numbers were down year on year 6.5 per cent overall, but Asia-Med fell 9.4 per cent in November after a 14.4 per cent slide the month before, notes London's Containerisation International.
Unemployment hit an all-time high in November across 17-nation single currency bloc to reach 11.8 per cent, meaning that 18.8 million people are without a job in the eurozone.
Northern eurozone states fared better with Germany's unemployment rate at 5.4 per cent and the Netherlands at 5.6 per cent, a difference reflected in the latest Container Trades Statistics data covering November 2012.
Asia-Europe trade numbers were down year on year 6.5 per cent overall, but Asia-Med fell 9.4 per cent in November after a 14.4 per cent slide the month before, notes London's Containerisation International.
Unemployment hit an all-time high in November across 17-nation single currency bloc to reach 11.8 per cent, meaning that 18.8 million people are without a job in the eurozone.