Narayan said the first signs of a significant drop in demand were visible and freight rates on the shipping side had declined quite significantly on certain routes as agencies including the International Monetary Fund lowered growth forecasts.
"It is clear that there is a massive drop in demand, inventories are not clearing up the orders are not coming through," he said on Monday.The biggest problems were in China, Europe and the United States, as the world's largest producing and consuming economies, DP World's Narayan said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
There were three overriding factors driving this, Narayan said, notably disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation in Europe due to the energy price spike and severe disruptions to global supply chains. DP World, which is a major ports operator, has been talking to the United Nations and Kyiv about providing safe passage for the transportation of grain out of Ukraine, but had yet to get the necessary approvals, Narayan added.
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