China is the latest country to get hit with devastating floods.

China is the latest country to be been hit with devastating floods. In the provincial capital Zhengzhou, the equivalent of a year's average rainfall has fallen in just three days.

More than 200,000 people have been evacuated with markets, schools and businesses shutting. The powerful storm has also forced some of the worlds biggest shipping ports to stop operations and flights to be cancelled, causing big delays to shipments. 

The shipping industry has already seen big delays and disruptions this year from the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ever Given running aground in the Suez Canal.

Globally we are also seeing delays with Rail as heavy rainfall and flooding have devastated parts of western Europe. Most severe flooding happened in Germany and Belgium but parts of Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have also been affected too. In China, shipping delays stemming from floods are worsened because the province of Henan is landlocked.

The delay in global shipping impacts populations worldwide, businesses are now faced with not only longer turnarounds for shipping, but also rising costs for goods, according to a recent reports

‍