China’s National Meteorological Center (NMC) has issued the orange alert for this year’s 18th Typhoon of the season, Typhoon Talim on Sep 13th and Zhejiang government raised its alert to red on the morning of Sep 14th. So far, the terminal and container depot operations are affected as below: Ningbo terminals have announced to suspend all of the operations from 12PM on Sep 14th which means no empty container release and laden container return until further notice. Shanghai Yangshan terminal has suspended pilot service for inbound vessel from 2am and suspended pilot service for outbound vessel from 11am on the 14th. Although the equipment and laden container return services are operating normally, the vessel berthing and sailing will be affected which could lead to the delay of vessel departure.