Elephant march in SW China blamed for shipment delays

Aerial photo taken on June 6, 2021 shows wild Asian elephants in Jinning District of Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

BEIJING (Global Times): A fruit and vegetable company has received hundreds of customer complaints after tens of thousands of online orders were delayed as a result of a wild Asian elephant herd making a 500km northern trek that passed through Chinese cities, said media reports.

A total of 33, 000 orders were delayed and only began to be processed recently, as the local farmers were unable to pick at the farm where the elephants stayed in Yuxi, southwest China's Yunnan Province, from May 28 to 30, according to The Paper on Wednesday.