Posted on 08/12/2021 12:20:02 PM PDT by rxsid
China coronavirus infection closes shipping terminal at massive Ningbo-Zhoushan Port as container rates soar
The world’s largest shipping port by cargo tonnage has shut down one of its key terminals following a confirmed case of Covid-19, putting further strain on the global shipping industry and disrupting supply chains.
The news came as container shipping rates from China and Southeast Asia to the east coast of the United States hit a record high
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On Wednesday, a 34-year-old employee at the Meishan Terminal of China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port tested positive for the coronavirus despite being fully inoculated with two doses of the Sinovac vaccine.
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Port authorities quickly locked down the Meishan area – including the terminal and bonded warehouse – and suspended its operations indefinitely
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The disruption in Ningbo could exacerbate existing delays in global shipping,
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Furthermore, many traders are passing on costs of delays to customers, potentially pushing up global inflation.
(Excerpt) Read more at scmp.com ...
Haven’t the Chinese forced their subjects to be “vaccinated”?
Now is a good time to rid ourselves of Chinese crap! Except that SloJoe and his cronies are destroying small businesses at the same time.
Something else must be happening. They shut the terminal down because of one asymptomatic infection?
Let’s bring it home.
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The rewards for sending jobs off shore because of high taxes democrats take bow.
Agreed.
One, asymptomatic, and they shut down the entire terminal of the largest port in the world...and...it services North America and Europe.
Knowing that by doing this, they will create havoc in numerous markets in the western world as well as price increases...I don't doubt the CCP did this to wage economic war on us during a time of inflation.
They want to make it worse.
Yes, thanks for the links!
Chairman Xi is destroying China. That can be very bad and that can be very good.
..... Probably just using COVID as an excuse to shut the ports to drive up prices to burden trade competitors into a quasi trade war ..... all under the name of the Evil COVID ....
Cover story for a crippling cyber attack on the facility, would be my guess.
“Something else must be happening. They shut the terminal down because of one asymptomatic infection?”
Same policy as Australia uses.
Bkmk
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