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Container blows up on freight ship at China's crucial Ningbo port

.A flying image is showing containers at Beilun Slot in Ningbo, Zhejiang district, China, on April 11, 2024. Nurphoto|Nurphoto|Getty ImagesBEIJING u00e2 $" A hazardous products container blew up Friday on a packages ship in China's high-traffic Ningbo slot, Taiwanese vessel proprietor Yang Ming Marine Transportation Corp. told CNBC in a statement.No disasters or even personal injuries were actually revealed to day. The event took place on the YM Flexibility ship and also caused a fire, which has actually been actually brought controlled, the owner claimed. All folks on board were actually properly evacuated.The Liberia-flagged ship had shown up in Ningbo after final calling at Shanghai, according to MarineTraffic tracking information. State-owned port operator Ningbo-Zhoushan said the ship was actually dropped anchor at the Beilun 2 container terminal, according to a message on Mandarin social media.The port operator and Yang Ming both mentioned the root cause of the happening was not however clear.Yang Ming incorporated that the owner of the goods had actually stated it under dry out, cold storage, without demand for plugged-in power, according to a CNBC translation of the Chinese-language statement.The accident did not immediately look to considerably interrupt major shipping lines.Ningbo-Zhoushan is China's second-highest website traffic port, situated in asian China's Zhejiang district. Shanghai is the busiest slot worldwide, followed through Singapore and after that Ningbo-Zhoushan, depending on to Lloyd's List.u00e2 $" CNBC's Ruxandra Iordache resulted in this report.