When a typhoon approaches South China, attention goes to ports and vessels, but the delay often starts earlier. Factories stop work, local trucking halts, warehouses change their hours and inspectors cannot travel. Two days of weather can delay production, move the inspection, cost the truck its appointment and roll the container to the next sailing.
We cannot know which city will be hit or on which day, but we know the season. During it, we leave space between final production, inspection, correction and the port cut-off.