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China congestion: what shippers need to know

The bigger risk may not be congestion itself. It may be the assumptions being made around it.

Delays in Shanghai and Ningbo are impacting vessel schedules, equipment availability and network reliability far beyond China, creating knock-on effects for inventory planning, customer commitments and operational decision-making worldwide. As organisations prepare for Golden Week and year-end inventory builds, understanding these downstream impacts has become increasingly important.