Northern eurozone states fared better with Germany`s unemployment rate at 5.4 per cent and the Netherlands at 5.6 per cent, a difference reflected in the latest Container Trades Statistics data covering November 2012.
Asia-Europe trade numbers were down year on year 6.5 per cent overall, but Asia-Med fell 9.4 per cent in November after a 14.4 per cent slide the month before, notes London`s Containerisation International.
Unemployment hit an all-time high in November across 17-nation single currency bloc to reach 11.8 per cent, meaning that 18.8 million people are without a job in the eurozone.