{"id":2883,"date":"2021-12-21T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:17:24","slug":"severe-flooding-disrupts-operations-port-klang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/severe-flooding-disrupts-operations-port-klang\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Flooding Disrupts Operations at Port Klang"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2884\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-1.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2884\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2884\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-1-300x225.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TD 29 bring heavy rains to Malaysia<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tropical Depression 29 developed over the South China Sea December 16th and moved west\u00a0 near 4 N latitude, crossing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malaysia on the 17th after making landfall south of Kertch (north of Singapore).\u00a0 Due to the proximity to the equator, this system did not develop into a named tropical cyclone.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2886\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-2.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2886\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2886\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-2-300x220.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-2-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-2-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-2-1024x752.png 1024w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-2.png 1135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Port Klang<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very heavy rainfall associated with TD 29 caused flooding that severely disrupted operations at the Port Klang which is located on the Strait of Malacca northwest of Singapore and is the 12th busiest container port in the world.\u00a0 Port Klang is a trans-shipment port in the trade from Asia to Europe and will add to the many shipping delays already affecting the world economy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2885\" style=\"width: 848px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-6-.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2885\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2885\" src=\"http:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-6-.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-6-.png 838w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-6--300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/temp-6--768x390.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 838px) 100vw, 838px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooding from TD 29<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The flooding affected warehouses, empty container depots and access roads. In addition, many port workers were able to get to work due to flooded roadways. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Malaysian government has classified the storm as a once-per-century event.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Depression 29 developed over the South China Sea December 16th and moved west\u00a0 near 4 N latitude, crossing Malaysia on the 17th after making landfall south of Kertch (north of Singapore).\u00a0 Due to the proximity to the equator, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/severe-flooding-disrupts-operations-port-klang\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,3],"tags":[157,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanweatherservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}