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Shipping container shortages have resulted due to the coronavirus

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Mzingaye Ndubiwa

Published Mar 19, 2020

A shortage of shipping containers has arisen due to the majority of the world's containers being stuck at Asian terminals as a result of lockdown protocols that have been placed due to the coronavirus outbreak. This has led to a concern from South African fruit exports that shipping containers may be insufficient to meet all their export needs.

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