477 bulk vessels wait to unload outside key Chinese ports

Dotting the sea off Chinese ports are 477 bulk cargo ships waiting to deliver resources from metal ore to grain into the country.
Photo: Xu Congjun/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Xu Congjun/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
By Ann Koh and Kevin Varley, Bloomberg News

Queues of vessels carrying raw materials have jumped after Shanghai initiated a city-wide lockdown at the end of last month to combat Covid-19. More than two weeks on, the congestion has expanded to nearby Ningbo-Zhoushan as shipowners desperately divert ships to other ports in the country to avoid the trucker shortage and warehouse closures in Shanghai.

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