The report relies on satellite imagery, photographs, and transponder data to make the case for the Chinese vessel being engaged in sanctions-busting. Chinese container ship Heng Yang 9. Source: VesselFinderThe investigative report says the large vessel has made at least three visits to Crimea in recent months, citing furious Ukrainian officials. Russian authorities in August also listed Berdyansk and Mariupol, two other occupied Ukrainian ports, as open to foreign visitors. Financial Times tracking graphic:A Chinese cargo ship visited the occupied port of Sevastopol in Crimea, under sanctions since 2014 — faking its route and making an unprecedented series of stops by a major foreign vessel to one of the Ukrainian ports seized by Russia.