Surveillance camera video published by state television CCTV showed a huge explosion of white smoke followed by an orange and yellow fireball that scattered the debris and completely engulfed containers stacked at least three meters high.
No injuries were reported in the explosion and ensuing fire at the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, south of Shanghai and one of the largest in the world. A container on the docked ship exploded, according to CCTV.
An aerial photograph published by the television channel showed black smoke coming from a stack of containers at one end of the ship and from an area on the dock. The rest of the ship and its containers appeared to be undamaged.
The Zhejiang Provincial Emergency Management Administration said the ship was loaded with Class 5 hazardous materials, but did not say what they were.
