Yet such a level of growth is unsustainable, given the contraction of global demand.
Analysts say this problem has been resolved, but the shipping industry has since been swamped by the global trade contraction.
Figures released last week confirmed that the last half of 2008 saw the most savage contraction in demand for motor vehicles since the second world war.
But amid growing talk that the first budding signs of recovery are emerging, a reduction in the year-on-year rate of economic contraction can be considered a sign of progress.
We have massive contraction of credit formation.
The World Bank expects the fastest contraction of trade since the Depression.
Stricture type: the fibrous contraction in the cancer tissue causes a stricture circumference which extends under the mucous membrane around the intestinal wall.
In contrast, outside of a few areas such as drilling and mining, business investment in structures has continued to contract, although the rate of contraction appears to be slowing.
But focusing on close objects involves contraction of muscles controlling the shape of the eye's lens. And one possibility is that "this constant contraction may stretch the eyeball.
The toxin blocks the ability of acetylcholine, one of the body's chemical neurotransmitters, to control muscle contraction.
As protons or heavy nuclei, such as gold, are accelerated to nearly the speed of light, the quarks and gluons inside flatten into a pancakelike structure, a relativistic effect called Lorentz contraction.
However, we expect a further modest contraction, of 0.2%, in 2010.
There are also signs that the rate of contraction in the global economy has slowed in recent months, while conditions in global financial markets have also improved.
Having risen for the previous two months, it dropped below 50 again, the dividing line between expansion and contraction.
Wound contraction can produce serious functional impairment.
Correct evaluation of the fetal growth in uterus according to B-ultrasound, enhancing the basic nursing during gestation period, watching out for fetal heart rate and uterine contraction, preserving clearness of pudenda, preventing infection and enhancing nutrition can prolong fetus duration.
Cleland likened its expansion and contraction to the inflation and deflation of a balloon.
Because GSH is also essential to aerobic muscular contraction, an undesirable competition for GSH precursors between the immune and muscular systems may develop.
I don't want to minimize those problems; some countries, such as Ireland, are being forced into fiscal contraction even in the face of severe recession.
