By akademiotoelektronik, 15/08/2022

COVID-19.Traffic jams in Chinese ports with health measures

Several Chinese ports are confronted with traffic jams, ships that had to stop in Ningbo being diverted and the treatment of slower goods, especially due to the more strict health measures imposed within the framework of the fight against the coronavirus.

50 pending container ships

More than 50 container ships line up on Tuesday at the port of Ningbo, the second Maritime Center in China, against 28 on August 10, according to Refinitiv data, the date on which a case of COVID-19 was reported in one ofits terminals.

The main international maritime transport groups warned their customers that they were going to have to undergo delays and modify their routes.At least 14 vessels operated by CMA CGM, five marsk ships and four from Hapag-Lloyd decided to avoid Ningbo.

Negative or sanitary PCR tests

The Chinese Transport Ministry has ordered all ports to set up teams responsible for taking care of foreign ships.China also demands that crews have health "passes" or negative tests before being allowed to load and unload the cargoes.

Some ports apply additional precautions to ships that have stopped in the last 21 days in high -risk regions, such as India, Laos or Russia.

Zero bad tolerance for the economy

"China's zero tolerance policy is good for the pandemic, but bad for the supply chain," said Dawn Tiura, Director of Sourcing Industry Group, an American supply and purchasing sector association.

"The moment is very difficult given the increase in purchases for the start of the school year and the return to work, in addition to the next season of purchasing for the holidays," she added.

The ships that had to stop in Ningbo are redirected to neighboring ports.The port of Shanghai had 34 ships at anchor Tuesday, against 27 on August 10, that of Xiamen, 700 km south of Ningbo, had 18 against four at the start of last week.

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