In China, the virus stops containers: international trade goes haywire

BEIJING – Closed due to viruses. Still. And, again, the delays in shipments from Chinese to European and American ports are increasing to unprecedented levels. As well as the prices, mind-boggling. A case of Covid and China has decided to close one of the terminals of the port of Ningbo, the third largest in the world, putting the already flooded shipping chain even more in crisis.