A study from 2022 estimates that over 1.25 billion tons of goods travel through Ningbo-Zhoushan port annually, making it one of the busiest cargo ports in the world.
Nearly 300 container lines pass through the port, linking more than 600 ports in 60 different nations.
Videos of the explosion have gone viral on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, sparking a discussion on what may have occurred at the port.
The Beilun Port region of Ningbo Zhoushan Port was the site of an explosion. It seems as if a container went boom. Just what is it?
“What is inside [to cause] such a powerful explosion?” one writer pondered, while another penned, “Oh my God.”
