Ships are again piling up at ports

Landkarte mit bunten Punkten, die wartende Schiffe vor dem Shanghaier Hafen symbolisieren — The website Vesselfinder.com shows the growing ship congestion off the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo (screenshot from April 28).

The lockdowns in China affect already struggling international goods traffic. A huge ship jam is forming off Shanghai, while ports in the west suffer from a flood of containers. At a webinar hosted by AHK Hong Kong, experts discussed the implications of this.

They’re back: The infamous cargo ship jams that have repeatedly disrupted global supply chains since the pandemic began have reappeared off China’s coasts. Last Wednesday, 230 ships anchored at the shared roadstead off the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. On Thursday, ship tracking we bsit e Vesselfinder already classified 296 ships as „expected“ off both Ningbo and Shanghai’s ports yesterday. Some are being diverted to Shenzhen, causing ships to pile up there as well.

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