由于港口工作人员和货柜车司机减少，过去一段时间中国的港口极度拥塞，这种情况目前有所好转。请看本报昨日的报道：

Severe congestion at Chinese ports is easing, say officials and industry participants, although a logjam of refrigerated containers has disrupted supplies of fresh and frozen food and pushed up freight rates outside China.

Thousands of refrigerated containers carrying meat, seafood and fruit from around the world to China have been stuck for weeks at the country’s ports after the government extended its Lunar New Year holiday and cities around the nation restricted free movement to curb the spread of COVID-19.

With skeleton staffing at ports and few truck drivers available to transport cargoes onwards, refrigerated containers — known as reefers — were either stranded at already congested ports or redirected around Asia to find places where they could be plugged in to power to keep their contents fresh.

报道中的skeleton staffing就是“最少的人员配

备”，skeleton是“骨架、基本构架”的意思。例如：

The warehouse has skeleton staffing on Sundays.

这个仓库星期天只有少数基本岗位有人上班。