By employing a panel vector autoregressive approach, we show that containership trade is an important determinant ofGDP growth. Using the full sample of sea-transported container boxes of 135 countries for ten years, we provideevidence that the amount of TEUs transported, both contemporaneously...

This paper investigates the seasonal behaviour of monthly container transshipment data of the port of Hamburg. The test procedures of Franses and Beaulieu-Miron are used to examine the presence of multiple unit roots in the monthly seasonal frequencies. This is followed by the Canova-Hansen...