"Stop the Virus to Save Logistics"

Busan City Conducts Emergency Quarantine Inspections at Joint Logistics Center and 5 LME Storage Warehouses

Status of Small and Medium Distribution Joint Logistics Centers in the Busan Area.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] An urgent quarantine inspection of logistics centers in the Busan area is set to begin to prevent the spread or introduction of infectious diseases through logistics and distribution.

Busan City announced on the 7th that from the 8th to the 12th, a five-day self-quarantine inspection activity will be conducted targeting five large-scale logistics centers to prevent the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

The inspection targets include three small and medium-sized distribution joint wholesale logistics centers and two LME storage warehouses. This is a response to the recent cluster infections of COVID-19 at distribution logistics centers such as Coupang and Market Kurly.

The small and medium-sized distribution joint wholesale logistics centers are logistics warehouses built with national and city funds to reduce distribution and logistics costs for small and medium-sized merchants as part of the government's measures to revitalize small and medium-sized retail businesses.

In Busan, there are three centers: Dongbu Logistics Center, Saha Logistics Center, and Buk-gu Logistics Center, operated by the Korea Supermarket Cooperative Federation. The LME storage warehouses are designated warehouses by the London Metal Exchange that store seven non-ferrous metal items (copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, tin, nickel, aluminum alloy) and are located in a delivery complex with two warehouses in the hinterland of Gamcheon Port.

The logistics centers are used daily by about 100 small and medium-sized wholesale and retail businesses in each region. Busan City views that COVID-19 infection could cause serious damage to local small businesses and requested self-prevention activities and strengthened quarantine measures from the centers and designated warehouse operators on May 28.

During the inspection period, Busan City plans to check the actual conditions regarding quarantine rule education such as designation and operation of quarantine managers, preparation of contact networks for all workers, temperature checks during commuting, mask-wearing management for workers inside workplaces, provision of hand sanitizers in workplaces, facility disinfection management, ventilation of workplaces at least twice a day, and maintaining a minimum distance of 1 meter between workers to prevent COVID-19.

A city official said, “We will do our best in quarantine prevention activities by urgently inspecting the quarantine status of logistics facilities to prevent and stop the spread of COVID-19 and strengthening measures accordingly.”

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