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(Bloomberg) — A Covid outbreak that has partially shut one of the world’s busiest container ports is heightening concerns that the rapid spread of the delta variant will lead to a repeat of last year’s shipping nightmares. The Port of Los Angeles, which saw its volumes dip because of a June Covid outbreak at the Yantian port in China, is bracing for another potential decline because of the latest shutdown at the Ningbo-Zhoushan port in China, a spokesman said. Anton Posner, chief… Source link

Facebook has updated its data transfer tool, Transfer Your Information, with two new destinations for information associated with your Facebook account: Photobucket and Google Calendar (via Engadget). Facebook allowed photo transfers to services like Google Photos in the past, but the company says Facebook Events are a new data type for the tool it created as part of the Data Transfer Project. Support for Photobucket and Google Calendar comes alongside a larger redesign of Transfer Your… Source link

Fresh coronavirus outbreaks in Southern China are threatening to create new bottlenecks at America’s largest port again, even as the recovery in Western economies help to dramatically reduce its inventory. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said he expected to see “a little bit of a lull” with roughly a third of its cargo coming in from the Pearl River Delta in the Guangdong Province. “What we’re seeing is that 50% of normal… Source link