The European Union, China and the United States play the largest role in international trade, in terms of supplying products and as markets, and their trade relations largely determine the configuration of cargo flows in the international transport system.

For more than a year, the whole world has been living with COVID-19 and related restrictions. The coronacrisis had a huge impact on the transport and logistics industry represented by sea, rail and air cargo transportation. Some of them continue to be in crisis mode, while others have become beneficiaries of the crisis.