Ho Chi Minh City is now the Covid-19 epicentre of Vietnam and the resulting lockdown of the country’s commercial capital has slowed port operations in the southern part of the country.
Movement restrictions have been imposed in the southern Vietnamese city until 1 August, after thousands of Covid-19 infections were confirmed.
A spokesperson for Hapag-Lloyd told Container News that several factors, including the recent grounding of Ever Given in the Suez Canal and the bottleneck in China’s Yantian...