(THE EPOCH TIMES) – On March 21, Shenzhen, which was under lockdown, announced temporary lifting of the lockdown, restoring order to production and daily life for a week. However, Shenzhen’s Yantian port soon became even more congested, adding to the bottlenecks in the global supply chain caused by the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
On March 20, the Shenzhen COVID-19 Prevention and Control Command reported that from March 21 to 27, Shenzhen’s public transport and underground services would resume full operation, and government agencies and enterprises would resume normal work and production operations.
With factory production and logistics back to normal, congestion at Yantian Port in Shenzhen, the world’s fourth largest container terminal, soon worsened. According to Vesseltracker’s ship tracking data, there were 44 ships waiting to dock at Yantian Port in Shenzhen at 5 a.m. on March 23, many more than the 34 ships at Yantian Port in Shenzhen on March 16 during the city’s closure.
