west. but as you mentioned at the top, this is china s worst outbreak since wuhan in early 2020. if we bring up the map for you, our viewers can see that the current flare-up of infection has spread to over 21 provinces and municipalities across china in the last 24 hours. the epicenter of this latest outbreak is the province of jilin in the northeastern corner of china. it shares a border with north korea. already hundreds of neighborhoods in the province have been put under lockdown. multiple rounds of mandatory testing have been ordered. we ve also learned that travel both inside and outside jilin province has been banned. two major cities, meanwhile, are in some form of a lockdown. you ve got changchun, which is inside jilin province. it s a major city inside jilin. it s also a major automotive manufacturing hub as well as shenzhen. shenzhen is one of the world s busiest container ports. it is also a major tech hub located in the south of china, and we ve learned that foxconn,
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will go back in the cycle and come back towards those ports, it may be put in storage for a while before it is loaded onto a departing vessel that sails back to somewhere like asia, and i guess that s another a0 days or so sailing time. so there is boxes and storage capacity after lockdowns has been a real pressure for our sector, and so getting those boxes back under ships has been a particular concern. so boxes back under ships has been a particular concern. particular concern. so those hgv drivers are particular concern. so those hgv drivers are critical, particular concern. so those hgv drivers are critical, then. - drivers are critical, then. absolutely. and this is notjust for container ports. most of our freight in the uk moves around on road, so collecting goods, whether they be in a container or a trailer or a bulk commodity, the vast majority of that is on road, and therefore when you do have a bit of a shortage of holy drivers, that means itjust takes longer for goods t
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