© Qilai Shen/BloombergContainers sit stacked next to gantry cranes in this aerial photograph taken above the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in Ningbo, China, on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. President Donald Trump wants to reach an agreement on trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 nations summit in Argentina later this month and has asked key U.S. officials to begin drafting potential terms, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The port hasn't published any updates on its operations since Wednesday, when it halted all inbound and outbound container services at its Meishan terminal after one employee tested positive for Covid-19. Consultant GardaWorld estimated the terminal accounted for about 25% of container cargo through the port, though Ningbo-Zhoushan had said it would redirect ships to other terminals and adjust operating hours at other docks.
An employee at the port's media center said they had no new information to share when contacted by Bloomberg News on Monday. No new infections have been reported at the port since the initial case.
Comment: This may be good news, not because of the relatively harmless coronavirus, but because it may mean the port may reopen sooner rather than later. China is known for its drastic response to cases and will seal off entire cities over just a dozen cases without hesitation, however there's a significant difference with the West, which is that China's more objective reporting means that it has hundreds of percent less cases and deaths with/from coronavirus, it also got back to relative normal by the end of 2020, whereas the West has continued to torture its citizens with rolling and even national lockdowns, and in the process is remorselessly zombifying its economies.
One also wonders what the Western media would say if China didn't lockdown
Shipping firm Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. warned clients of potential "port congestion" due to the partial closure in an advisory on Monday, while Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. reminded customers to check terminals before arranging container gain-in at Ningbo in a Saturday notice. Maersk said Friday it had an AC6 vessel at the Meishan terminal, and that all its AC6 ships will omit Ningbo in August.
Since bringing the initial coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan under control last year, China has taken a zero-tolerance approach to Covid, taking strict measures to quash even single cases, especially at strategic locations like ports.
China's Covid-Zero Strategy Risks Leaving It Isolated for Years
The latest port disruption followed the closure for about a month of Shenzhen's Yantian port in late May after an outbreak among port staff. It's also stoking fears that ports around the world could face similar outbreaks soon given the spread of the highly-infectious delta variant, potentially triggering the sorts of curbs and disruptions that impacted global shipping last year.
To facilitate the Big Crash necessary for the WEF's "Great Reset".