Trade / Value chains / Vehicles: factory → ro-ro → showroom
Value chain · Vehicles: factory → ro-ro → showroom · chain momentum
−2.2%
Assembly → car carriers → import markets → sales. Latest readings: car exporters' ro-ro shipments up 2.0%; import markets' ro-ro arrivals down 7.5%; uS light vehicle sales down 1.1%. US new vehicle prices: 179.6 index (+0.6% y/y, 2026-09).
Maken/a
Ship+2.0%
Land−7.5%
Sell−1.1%
The chain, stage by stage
Chain momentum: simple average of the stage readings (13 weeks y/y for weekly port data, 3 months y/y for monthly releases). Readings older than 4 months are shown but not scored. Price is context, not scored. Each stage shows its own date.
Flows
Stage momentum, last 2 years
Each stage against a year earlier. When an upstream stage runs ahead of the next one, inventories are building somewhere along the chain.
Routes and chokepoints
Main sea lanes of the chain, annual volume, and the live status of each passage.