Container availability and prices could be hit by lockdowns in Ningbo port and Vietnam warns Container xChange.

Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) is back in full operations handling roughly 40,000 teu per day.

Yantian Port is set to resume full operations on 24 June over a month after measures to combat a Covid-19 outbreak sharply reduced capacity resulting in major delays to global container shipping.

Operations are slowly starting to improve at Yantian port, however, delays of 16 days and upwards are expected to continue at the key South China gateway according to Maersk.

As congestion at South China ports grows due to Covid prevention measures and lines reroute services Ocean Network Express has implemented $1,000 per reefer container surcharge for Yantian.

The congestion situation at South China ports continues to worsen impacting well over 100 sailings from major container shipping lines and alliances as vessels calls at Yantian and other ports in the region are omitted or diverted.

Maersk is warning of delays of 14 days upwards at Yantian port due to heightened Covid restrictions, and lines are omitting and diverting more calls in South China.