Vietnam truck jam as China tightens import rules for Covid-19

A truck driver listens to phone call at a makeshift parking lot where Vietnamese container trucks are waiting to cross the Vietnam-China border in Lang Son province on January 7, 2022, as thousands of trucks carrying fruit remained stuck at the border while China tightened its border policies. - AFP

LANG SON (Vietnam), Jan 8 (AFP): Thousands of trucks carrying fruit were stuck on Friday (Jan 7) at Vietnam's main freight border crossing with China after Beijing tightened rules on imported goods because of the pandemic.

Lorries loaded with thousands of tonnes of dragonfruit, jackfruit, mango and other produce are languishing at the crossing in Vietnam's northern Lang Son province.