5368.0.55.018 - Information Paper: Experimental Statistics on International Shipping Container Movements, 2009-10  
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This paper presents experimental statistics on international shipping container movements. It describes government and industry data requirements for container statistics, the relationship between container statistics and other statistics, the methodology used to compile statistics on containers used to import goods, the available dataset for compiling container statistics and options for the future of these statistics. The paper aims to promote discussion and seek feedback from data users on the statistics presented, their methodology and other issues raised in the paper.