E-commerce

 

ICAO and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) embarked on a new joint project using the Commodity Trade Statistics Database (COMTRADE) and E-com data to identify and quantify logistical constraints on e-commerce activity. The COMTRADE data contains billions of records of commodity movements, including origin and destination countries, cost, insurance, mode of transport, and the type of transaction, while E-com records e commerce parcel transactions by date, time, class, weight, number and origin-destination city-pair.