Activity at ports tracked by the Global Port Tracker fell in February to the lowest level in five years. Imports accounted for 1.51 million 20-foot-equivalent unit containers in February, the latest data available. That was down 6.8% from the same time last year, and sequentially down 17% from January of this year.
Container lines have now cancelled 212 sailings over the next three months in response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence. The tally has more than quadrupled from 45 “blank” (cancelled) sailings just one week ago.
A COVID-19 infection that shut down Customs and Border Protection’s office at the port on Thursday will not impact cargo operations, the agency said.
Ports have yet to deny container, dry bulk or tanker ships the right to load or unload cargo due to coronavirus outbreaks among crew. But things could get much dicier in the months to come.
French carrier reports entire 500-vessel fleet is free of coronavirus cases.
Officials at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, said the facility is operating at about 80% as factories in China slowly come back online, and the U.S. economy struggles amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Crew members evacuated from container ship, tested for coronavirus and hospitalized in China.
Second Navy ship expected to arrive in New York on Monday to provide relief to hospitals overburdened with coronavirus patients
It’s business as usual at Georgia’s ports, but with an “isolate and operate strategy.” That strategy includes spreading out workers at the 1,300-acre Garden City Terminal in Savannah to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus, Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) Executive Director Griff Lynch said.
Terminal operators in the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland are adding an extra hour between the day and night shifts in order to sanitize equipment, but they say the move should not cause operational disruptions.
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