Fig. 3: The global number of containers index. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 3: The global number of containers index.

From: Eye in outer space: satellite imageries of container ports can predict world stock returns

Fig. 3

GNC represents the global number of containers calculated by summing the numbers for all 48 ports. For comparison, we also plot the baltic dry index (BDI) and container throughput index collected by the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (RWI) and the Institute for Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL). The data are min–max normalized between 0 and 1.

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