Yantian, one of the world's busiest ports, has shut down temporarily as a tropical cyclone barrelled down on China's southern coastline on Tuesday.

The port near Shenzhen stopped container imports and exports as a precaution against Kompasu, the second cyclone to hit the region in the past few days, Bloomberg reported.

The suspension has caused the number of ships at anchorage outside the port, which handled 13.3m