Covid container shipping congestion
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An outbreak of Covid-19 has partially closed one of the world’s busiest container ports, Ningbo-Zhoushan in China – adding to a global logjam of around 370 container ships stuck outside ports across the world NUMBER OF CONTAINER SHIPS WAITING TO BERTH
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(Aug 11, 2021)

10 26
18 34
12 5 112
2 5 160
32 2
7
14
20 2
9
8
2 2
6 45
5

Total: 376
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According to Kuehne+Nagel’s Seaexplorer data, there were 376 container ships stuck
outside ports globally, with some of them, such as at ports
of Los Angeles and Long Beach in the U.S., having to wait up to 12 days to berth and unload
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Sources: Seaexplorer, Financial Times, Bloomberg Picture: Pixabay (Pexels) © GRAPHIC NEWS