A large number of unused containers pile up Tuesday at the Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the world’s largest by cargo tonnage, as slowing economies weigh on global shipping demand. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A truck loaded with containers drives into the Ningbo-Zhoushan port in East China’s Zhejiang province on Tuesday. More than 5 million empty standard containers were stacked at ports across China in early February, twice as many as pre-Covid, a teacher at Dalian Maritime University told Caixin. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Idle trucks fill the port’s parking lot. Truck drivers are usually busy hauling goods during the week, but now many of them are out of work. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A truck driver eats lunch in his cab. Multiple truck drivers told Caixin that they only transport goods three or four times a week, down from six or seven pre-Covid. Due to the drop in their income, some drivers eat, sleep and live out of their vehicles. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

A driver hangs clean clothes on the front of his truck. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Truck drivers chat at the port on Tuesday. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Empty containers surround a vegetable garden at the port on Tuesday. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin

Stockpiled empty containers stacked up six rows high can been seen all around the port on Sunday. Photo: Chen Liang/Caixin