Yingkou

A blast furnace exploded Thursday morning at the Yingkou Iron and Steel Co.,

Ltd. in Yingkou, east of Beijing in Liaoning province, the city’s Emergency Management Bureau said in a statement.

Phone calls to the Yingkou government Friday weren’t answered.

In December that year, according to satellite imagery, the ship left Yingkou and put in at Caofeidian port some 230 miles south.

Instead, the Petrel 8 sat in Yingkou port under court custody for more than two years, according to China’s maritime court records.