China's top land port idles non-container goods import

China's largest land port - Manzhouli - in Hulunbuir of North China's Inner Mongolia that borders both Russia and Mongolia has suspended all imports of goods that are not hauled via containers effective the start of December 1 as an emergency measure to contain the spread of COVID-19, according to a local government notice.

The banned goods include wood, coal, mineral fines, chemical fertilizer, pulp, non-gold minerals, agricultural by-products and others that need manual loading and unloading, and such goods that have already arrived at the unloading points have been suspended of unloading too starting December 1, according to the notice. Three new COVID-19