News / Container explodes on Yang Ming box ship in Chinese port

YM Mobility. Photo: VesselFinder

This post was edited at 10am BST on 12 August to include comment from Yang Ming

A container has exploded today onboard Yang Ming-owned YM Mobility, at a box terminal in the Beilun Port area of Ningbo-Zhoushan.

There are no reports of casualties or injuries to date.

News outlets on Chinese social media platform Weibo said the container held refrigerated organic peroxides, a reactive chemical which is highly combustible and liable to exothermic decomposition, which causes heat that rises as the outside temperature increases.

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