In the Chinese city of Ningbo, the authorities decided to close the Maishan terminal in Ningbo-chezhan, one of the most loaded in the world of the world’s container ports. Reports about it Bloomberg.
The cause of the decision has become revealed from the employee of the port case of coronavirus. According to the publication, initially all processes with the containers included in the port and outgoing from it were suspended “due to the system failure,” but later it became known that one of the workers was infected. Currently, all employees of the port, which in contact with an infected COVID-19 man are on quarantine.
According to the calculations of a specialist Consulting company GARDAWORLD, now this terminal accounts for about 25 percent of all port containers. He noted that such “suspension can seriously affect the processing and shipment.”
According to the publication, the new “system failure” can cause additional load on the process of supplying goods – it will slow down the logistics operations, which will affect price increases. In addition, the closure of the terminal “can be especially painful for the global economy”, as many companies on the eve of the New Year holidays most often send Christmas and festive goods by sea.
In addition, the consequences for trade in “Black Friday” are expected, and said Vice-President on the marketing of the logistics agency Project44 Josh Brazil. At the same time, he said that such delins of supplies and instability are quite common for only 2021.
Earlier, the Chinese media suggested that the infection could have to start athletes from the United States who participated in military games in Uhana in 2019. At that time, five American military players got sick during games. They had symptoms of infectious disease: in particular, fever, cough and diarrhea.