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. But Maersk warned that strong export demand was still pressuring congested ports and that intermittent delays would continue on certain trade lanes as conditions normalized.

Figures released by Drewry Thursday showed the recovery taking hold before the storm arrived, with average waiting times falling from 58 hours to 38 hours at Shanghai from the week prior, while those at Ningbo had decreased from 40 hours to 34 hours.

“Golden Week provided an opportunity for ports to clear backlogs and improve schedule reliability, supported by reduced cargo volumes and blank sailings,” said Drewry in the update.

Terminal-level data from Seko Logistics showed a more uneven picture underneath those averages on Friday, with Shanghai’s Waigaoqiao terminal experiencing waits at one to two-and-a-half days and idling times at Yangshan varying at around four days at one terminal grouping and six to seven days at the others.

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