Markets can handle Covid in China: "It’s the lack of demand that drag things down"

New coronavirus outbreaks could hamper freight markets in the short term, but the main threat to the industry lies somewhere else.
Photo: Xu Congjun/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Xu Congjun/AP/Ritzau Scanpix

Millions of Chinese are infected by Covid and the country’s industrial companies are in need of labor, prompting global concern about a new widespread corona crisis with ensuing shortage of goods and congestion in supply chains.

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