Another shipping crisis looms on Covid fears in southern China

[Throck]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/15/china-covid-cases-causing-higher-shipping-costs-delayed-goods.html

First, it was a critical shortage of shipping containers due to the pandemic. Then came a massive blockage in the Suez Canal.

Now, businesses and consumers are bracing for yet another shipping crisis, as a virus outbreak in southern China disrupts port services and delays deliveries, driving up costs again.


The Chinese province of Guangdong has faced a sudden uptick in Covid-19 cases. Authorities have moved to shut down districts and businesses to prevent the virus from spreading rapidly.

That's causing massive shipping delays in major Chinese ports, and jacking up already-high shipping costs as waiting times at berth "skyrocketed," according to analysts and those in the shipping industry

[SunSeeker]

1. The cost of cheap crap is going up!

[AllaN01Bear]

2. this is the cost of sending our manufacturing base to china.

i remember the pitch was at 1 time, " send your factory to china to help them modernize".

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

3. No garden hoses at the farm supply because 'they come from China' I was told. nt

[liberalla]

4. K&R