A significant increase in freight volumes is also projected to occur in the Indian Ocean - mainly from China to Europe through the Suez Canal. The increase in trade between Europe and Asia is also responsible for the dynamics of the Mediterranean corridor. The highest growth will occur in Asia and Africa, in line with the projections for GDP. Intra-Asian tonne-kilometres grow, in the baseline scenario, by a factor of 4.5, while in Africa this growth factor is 6.5. The transport cost performance for each origin-destination (OD) pair is defined by a logsum cost estimation. Because each commodity has a different sensitivity to price, the lower the logsum value falls, the greater the conversion of trade value into freight tonnage is.