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A Record Typhoon Season is Removing Capacity from China’s Biggest Ports

Satellite photo of a large typhoon with a well-defined eye spiraling over the ocean toward a coastline.

In the two weeks after Typhoon Dolphin hit the eastern coast of China, nearly 500,000 TEUs of container capacity came out of China’s top three ports.


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