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# About 50% of Vessels Delayed at the Busiest Ports in Asia

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 Daniel

September 16, 2026

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The typhoon season is wreaking havoc across East Asia and has caused massive disruptions to container shipping and port operations. Typhoon Saudel made landfall on 28 August forcing the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan to suspend operations for the third time in as many months.

Congestion at the busiest Asian ports is at very high levels leading to a decline in on-time vessel arrivals. Shanghai and Ningbo, two of the largest container ports in the world, have been hit by consecutive typhoons this year causing severe delays.

As a result, reliability at Ningbo has fallen by 20.1% while the situation in Shanghai has been described as particularly alarming. Only 21% of vessels are arriving on time at port in Shanghai for the month of July. This is the lowest recorded level for schedule reliability at Shanghai in 14 years of recorded data. Another pronounced drop in reliability was recorded at Singapore, the world’s largest transshipment hub.

Worsening delays at major Asian ports has led to a 6.1% drop in schedule reliability in July, the single largest decline since the height of COVID pandemic in January 2021.

The severe delays will cause backlogs that will affect global supply chains. Port congestion in Asia has pushed container lines into returning to the Red Sea and Suez Canal for the first time in two-and-a-half years.

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