Shanghai suspends schools and flights when typhoon approaches China

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SHANGHAI, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Authorities in Shanghai and neighboring coastal regions canceled flights and suspended schools, subways and trains as Typhoon Chanthu approached China after wetting Taiwan. although it caused little damage to it.

The storm, with winds of more than 170 kilometers per hour nearby, had been reduced from a super typhoon to a strong typhoon on Sunday evening and was expected to weaken gradually, according to Shanghai city authorities in a message to your official WeChat account.

But it was expected to bring strong winds and heavy rains to the coastal regions.

Zhejiang province, near Shanghai, raised the emergency response to the highest level on Sunday, closing schools and suspending flights and railways in some cities, the official Xinhua news service reported.

Zhejiang also issued red alerts for rapid flooding in nine districts. The port of Ningbo, China’s second-largest container transport hub after Shanghai, had suspended operations since Sunday at noon.

The port has just resumed after a week of port congestion, following Typhoon In-Fa in late July and a COVID-19-related terminal closure in mid-August.

In Shanghai, home to about 26 million people, all flights to Pudong City’s largest international airport were to be canceled from 11:00 local time (03:00 GMT), while that flights from Hongqiao’s smallest airport west of the city had to be canceled. as of 3 p.m., the Shanghai government announced on WeChat.

Port terminals in the Shanghai regions have suspended container import and export services from Monday until further notice.

The city also suspended subway services on some lines that served the city’s southern districts, and said parks, outdoor tourist attractions and playgrounds would be closed Monday and Tuesday. Classes were also scheduled to be suspended Monday afternoon and Tuesday.

Official forecasts predicted rainfall of 250 to 280 millimeters in some areas of southeastern Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and northeastern Zhejiang.

The typhoon passed over the east coast of Taiwan over the weekend, disrupting transportation and causing some electrical outages, but otherwise little damage.

Reports by Andrew Galbraith and Muyu Xu; Additional reports from Ben Blanchard in Taipei; Edited by Sam Holmes

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