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A new partial lockdown in Ningbo has highlighted the threat to container supply chains from China’s strict zero-Covid policy.

Positive cases in Ningbo’s Zhenhai district prompted “closed loop” management to be imposed on Monday, according to local media.

The city is home to the world’s third-largest container ...

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