Typhoon Champi is threatening the port recovery that eastern China had only just started to record, with ferry suspensions and maritime emergency responses already in force across Shanghai and the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces Friday.

No container terminal closures have been reported at major ports including Shanghai and Ningbo-Zhoushan.

Maersk told customers on Tuesday that conditions at Chinese ports had improved and vessel waiting times had continued to decline from the disruption left by earlier typhoons , which at one point had been responsible for more than 4 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) waiting to berth at container ports globally through early September, according to data from Linerlytica.

That congestion-driving figure has since dropped to 3.36 million TEUs, or 9.7 percent of the global fleet.…