Container-Ship Traffic Jam in Southeast Asia Worst Since April
Waves crash over a promenade during Typhoon Kompasu in Hong Kong, on Oct. 13.
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Typhoon Kompasu has resulted in the worst container shipping traffic jam in months, one that now stretches throughout Southeast Asia and may take weeks to unravel.
Although port operations are largely back to normal in Shenzhen and Hong Kong after the tropical storm’s passing, the total container ship count off the two vital hubs had ballooned to 271 as of early Friday, the highest count recorded since Bloomberg News started tracking the data in April.