Publish Time: 2021-06-24 Origin: Site
At 5 pm on June 22, 2021, the Shenzhen Municipal Government held a press conference to inform: The Yantian Port West Port Area will be fully unblocked today and begin docking operations. The main port area of Yantian Port will be fully restored in two days and will gradually realize ship docking. Normalize! At that time, the yard density in the Yantian International Container Terminal may further decrease, and the efficiency will steadily pick up!
Yantian Port is one of the busiest ports in the world. As one of the world's largest single-handle container terminals, Yantian Port is responsible for more than 1/3 of Guangdong's foreign trade import and export, and 1/4 of the country's trade with the United States. It is learned that the Yantian Port West Operation Area (West Port Area) mainly berths medium-sized container ships with a capacity of 3000Teu-6000Teu, and it is also the terminal operation site where the first confirmed case was found. It has been suspended for more than a month!
Therefore, the suspension of Yantian Port caused by the epidemic has had a great impact on the global shipping and logistics industry. The news revealed by the Shenzhen government press conference today is also the industry’s long-awaited news. It is expected that Shenzhen Yantian Port will resume operations as soon as possible. This is not only for southern China, but also It is extremely critical to the recovery of the global shipping and logistics industry.