Seems like a popular topic this year but again the weather is playing a factor in our lives. This time it's not so much the Great White North making the news but instead its the Great Red East.
Shanghai has had record snowfalls in the past week almost completely halting all types of transportation. It could not have come at a worse time either. The Chinese Lunar Year Festival or the Chinese New Year is just around the corner and along with it comes for a huge demand of transportation needs. Both Cargo and Passenger operations have been affected and are taking time to regain their fluidity.
Some reports say that after the snow storm that came on Friday and Saturday in Shanghai only 41 of a scheduled 521 airplanes took off from Shanghai's domestic airport and Pudong airport was closed temporarily at 11am Shanghai local time.
I have attached a picture of the Chinese army shoveling snow of one of Shanghai's four major bridges, it seems like nothing in comparison with the dumping of snow we received in Montreal yesterday but apparently 10cm in the wrong part of the world can really slow things down.
That's all for now.
Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Marc
