China’s port operations back to normal while weak demand weighs on container throughput
By Carrie Shi, Jon Stibbs, Sybil Pan
Published: Monday, 25 May 2020
China’s ports have resumed normal operations but overseas demand for exported materials remains reduced by the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in lower container throughput. Most producers of refractory raw materials, however, continued to get limited orders from global buyers.
Operations at China’s ports have returned to
normal although low liquidity on the seaborne market added to
the build-up of container numbers at the ports, leading to
reduced throughput, according to market sources.
Almost three months after the initial signs in China of a
restart to operations in the...