Shanghai lockdown: city’s gateway status under threat as passenger flights and air freight are grounded at Pudong’s airport amid Covid-19 tests

The gates to the world’s largest consumer market have been temporarily left ajar, as a rolling lockdown to contain Shanghai’s worst Covid-19 outbreak paralysed one of China’s busiest airports and left the biggest container port running at less than its full capacity. A mere 28 flights took off and landed as of 5pm on Tuesday at the Pudong airport, which used to handle 892 flights on a typical day in 2021, according to VariFlight Technology. Air freight may stop altogether by Thursday, as…

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