News / South China ports in crisis as logjam of box ships and containers grows

Source: MarineTraffic

South China’s port congestion has gone from bad to worse – delays at Yantian are spilling over to nearby Shekou and Nansha.

When the bottleneck began over two weeks ago, Hutchison-run Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) blamed out-of-whack shipping schedules for suspending laden export operations.

Since then, however, multiple shipping lines, including Maersk, have blamed Covid-19 for causing the poor port productivity in the Pearl River Delta.

The company said yesterday: “The situation continues to deteriorate as more positive Covid cases have been ...