Typhoon Saola halts port work in Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Port calls, Hong Kong: -51%
Days to 90% of the pre-event level: 6
Recovered on: 2023-09-08

Port calls, Hong Kong, 2023-06-22 (22 June 2023) to 2023-09-08 (8 September 2023): values ranged from 0 calls per day on 2023-09-01 to 70 calls per day on 2023-07-18, with a mean of 45.2 calls per day. The latest value, for 2023-09-08, was 45 calls per day. The shaded band marks the event window, 2023-08-31 to 2023-09-02.

Source: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org), International Monetary Fund, using UN Global Platform AIS data. Statistics derived by World Freight Monitor. Terms. Retrieved 2026-11-10 (10 November 2026).

Port calls, Hong Kong (calls per day).
Date	calls per day
2023-06-22	40
2023-06-23	57
2023-06-24	46
2023-06-25	38
2023-06-26	44
2023-06-27	48
2023-06-28	47
2023-06-29	53
2023-06-30	45
2023-07-01	43
2023-07-02	39
2023-07-03	42
2023-07-04	48
2023-07-05	48
2023-07-06	43
2023-07-07	40
2023-07-08	47
2023-07-09	42
2023-07-10	50
2023-07-11	51
2023-07-12	55
2023-07-13	50
2023-07-14	41
2023-07-15	50
2023-07-16	4
2023-07-17	25
2023-07-18	70
2023-07-19	64
2023-07-20	50
2023-07-21	57
2023-07-22	44
2023-07-23	55
2023-07-24	58
2023-07-25	50
2023-07-26	42
2023-07-27	36
2023-07-28	25
2023-07-29	34
2023-07-30	54
2023-07-31	53
2023-08-01	54
2023-08-02	39
2023-08-03	46
2023-08-04	44
2023-08-05	31
2023-08-06	35
2023-08-07	47
2023-08-08	49
2023-08-09	48
2023-08-10	51
2023-08-11	39
2023-08-12	44
2023-08-13	41
2023-08-14	46
2023-08-15	54
2023-08-16	45
2023-08-17	51
2023-08-18	42
2023-08-19	47
2023-08-20	37
2023-08-21	48
2023-08-22	41
2023-08-23	50
2023-08-24	39
2023-08-25	53
2023-08-26	57
2023-08-27	39
2023-08-28	44
2023-08-29	50
2023-08-30	50
2023-08-31	14
2023-09-01	0
2023-09-02	52
2023-09-03	66
2023-09-04	60
2023-09-05	47
2023-09-06	50
2023-09-07	47
2023-09-08	45

This is a measured change in public data during the event window, compared with a baseline before it. It shows timing, not cause. We describe an event as causing a change only when an official source says so. Recovery time is a plain reading against the effect method's own baseline, not a method figure.

Typhoon Saola halts port work in Hong Kong and Shenzhen on World Freight Monitor. Recovery time for every event.