On 3 October 2026, Bastille Post reported that Shanghai Yangshan Deep Water Port is maintaining round-the-clock operations through China’s National Day Golden Week (1–7 October) and is expected to handle more than 200,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) during the week-long holiday.
Hu Rongrong, deputy manager of operations at Shanghai Shengdong International Container Terminal Co., which runs major Yangshan container terminal areas, said 40 quay cranes and 101 tire-mounted gantry cranes were on duty on the second holiday day to match production pace, with four large container ships working simultaneously. On 1 October the port planned 31,500 TEUs and actually handled 32,500 TEUs; at that pace, holiday throughput would exceed 200,000 TEUs.
Shanghai Port is the world’s largest container port by throughput, a position it has held for multiple consecutive years. In the first eight months of 2026 it handled more than 37 million TEUs, a new record, with Yangshan—the core deep-water area—accounting for more than half of that volume.
For importers sourcing from China during Golden Week, the practical signal is that Yangshan’s quay and yard assets are still turning boxes at a high holiday rate. Separately confirm factory cargo-ready dates, inland trucking, customs documents and the carrier’s named post-holiday or holiday sailing, because terminal openness does not by itself guarantee that every booking meets cutoff.