Overview
- Bavi made two landfalls on Zhejiang's coast late Saturday night, prompting authorities to move about 2.68 million people into more than 19,000 emergency shelters.
- Major container terminals at the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo have resumed handling cargo but operators report low initial productivity, yard congestion and lingering vessel schedule disruptions.
- The storm has shifted heavy rain northward, forcing more than 260,000 people to evacuate in Liaoning and causing severe inundation, landslides and vehicles swept away in Hebei and other provinces.
- Beijing has allocated emergency funds and relief supplies, including a 100 million yuan central grant to Zhejiang and tens of thousands of relief items dispatched by the Ministry of Emergency Management.
- Meteorologists say Bavi is unusually large and long lived with a preserved warm core that is releasing vast moisture inland, and forecasters warn further heavy rain and flood risk as it weakens into an extratropical system.