摘要: |
I mages of ships waiting to call at Chinese ports flooded social media streams in April following the government-imposed COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai in March. With residents fearing for food shortages and manufacturing companies warning of supply and labor shortages, neighboring ports launched alleviation measures. The Ports and Shipping Administration of Huai'an, northwest of Shanghai, launched the "replacing land with water" project, an import and export channel to Shanghai port, which reduced the overall freight rate by nearly 50%. Huai'an Ports and Shipping Administration has also taken other measures to withstand the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of this year, such as opening up a new container route to Xinyang and arranging more shipments to inland ports further west in Zhoukou, Fengyang.and Jiaxing. |