BEIJING (Global Times): Traders and logistics firms are coping with longer waiting times and greater challenges to ship goods after some ports in South China's Guangdong Province, the top trading and manufacturing region for the country, encounter backlogs ahead of a busy Christmas export season due to tighter epidemic prevention measures amid new Covid-19 cases.
At Yantian Port, which is responsible for more than one-third of Guangdong's foreign trade and one-fourth of China's trade with the US, the "butterfly effect" has begun to emerge with slow port operations, crowded docks and delayed shipping dates, industry insiders told the Global Times on Sunday (June 6).
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