California’s Long Beach port handled $38bn in Chinese goods last year, but activity at the normally bustling harbour has more than halved from normal levels as the coronavirus outbreak spreads around the globe, according to harbour officials.
The pandemic forced factory closures across China starting in January, with ripple effects throughout the global economy.
Los Angeles’ ports have seen 50 “blank sailings” — ships scheduled to arrive that never finished their journeys — since the outbreak began, according to Ray Familathe, a union official at the port.
您已閱讀11%(561字),剩餘89%(4558字)包含更多重要資訊,訂閱以繼續探索完整內容,並享受更多專屬服務。