Coronavirus: Shanghai’s ports back up and running as fall in Covid-19 cases brings end of seven-week lockdown a step closer

Shanghai’s ports are back up and running at 90 per cent capacity as mainland China’s gateway city kept new infections in communities at zero for a fifth consecutive day amid intensified efforts to put the local economy back on track after a seven-week lockdown.

Daily container throughput via the harbours in Shanghai, including the world’s largest container port at Yangshan Island, reached 119,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), just 10 per cent shy of the normal handling volume before the Covid-19 outbreak, vice-mayor Zhang Wei told a press briefing on Thursday.