Port operations in the southern Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen have resumed in full, authorities say, after strict movement restrictions following a spike in COVID-19 infections in March.
Cranes are busy pulling containers off ships at a terminal in Shenzhen's Yantian Port.
A local customs officer says at present, the port has 104 shipping routes, and all 20 of its berths are operating at full capacity.
"Over the past two weeks, we handled 42,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) of import and export containers, a month-on-month increase of 44.67 percent. And the port's daily throughput exceeded the average throughput in 2021, up 8.1 percent. We have very good momentum before the arrival of the peak export season in the second half of the year," said Guo Zewen, a local customs officer.
Industry experts say a key factor supporting the ports' recovery is that local manufacturers are resilient and are bouncing back quickly back from virus.
"We are confident about China's foreign trade performance mainly because our manufacturing industry is competitive, and our industrial supply chain is complete," said Tu Xinquan, the Dean of the China Institute for WTO Studies of the University of International Business and Economics.
China's foreign trade growth remained stable in the first quarter of 2022, with total imports and exports reaching about 1.48 trillion U.S. dollars, up 13 percent year on year, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).
Source: CCTV
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