The call came in at around 2:30 pm on July 11, saying that a ship of Singaporean registry, the Hoyanger, at Yuantai dock, had broken its mooring lines and was about to be set adrift as the mighty typhoon Chan Hom swept across the harbor.

As soon as they got the call for help, the Taicang frontier inspection unit sent a team to rush out to secure the lines for the foreign ship. The team located the ship crew and got them to a secure position and managed to fasten the lines while braving the influence of the typhoon.

Frontier inspection officers are fastening the mooring lines for a ship of Singaporean registry under the influence of typhoon Chan Hom at Taicang port in Taicang city, Jiangsu province on July 11. [Photo by Legal Daily]

Sitting near the Yangtze River's entrance to the Pacific Ocean, the city of Taicang is no stranger to typhoons and the damage they can do and the team had already put an anti-typhoon, anti-flood plan into action, on July 9 and, by 10 pm on July 11, had visited 200 fishermen in their area, and has secured 120 ships in the port and sent out 300 warnings and transferred 70 fishermen.

Frontier inspection officers are fastening the mooring lines for a ship of Singaporean registry under the influence of typhoon Chan Hom at Taicang port in Taicang city, Jiangsu province on July 11. [Photo by Legal Daily]