China's seven-week Covid-19 port quarantine snarls supply chains further

Ship managers and operators are calling for China to relax its restrictions and governments to prioritise seafarers and shipping. - Reuters

BEIJING (Bloomberg): China’s increasingly extreme Covid Zero policies are standing in the way of a full recovery for the shipping industry and prolonging a crisis that’s snarled ports and emptied shelves worldwide.

In its attempts to keep the virus out, China’s continued to prohibit crew changes for foreign crew and recently imposed as much as a seven-week mandatory quarantine for returning Chinese seafarers. Even vessels that have refreshed their crew elsewhere have to wait two weeks before they’re allowed to port in China.