Major Container Ports in Eastern China See Worsening Congestion After COVID-19 Cases

Major Container Ports in Eastern China See Worsening Congestion After COVID-19 Cases
Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port in Shanghai, China, on Aug. 6, 2019. Aly Song/Reuters
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BEIJING/SINGAPORE—Congestion off China’s top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where a COVID-19 case was detected this week.

Tighter restrictions to fight China’s latest coronavirus outbreak are starting to hit more parts of the economy. The highly transmissible Delta variant has been detected in more than a dozen cities since late July.