China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday said several North Korean ships were allowed to dock at a Chinese coal port for humanitarian reasons, following a report from NK News a day earlier.

Since the publication of the article, two additional vessels were allowed to enter Jingtang port – including one that is sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), data from ship-tracking service Marine Traffic shows.

“As for some later reports claiming that some vessels might dock at Chinese ports, the thing is that if these vessels continue sailing on sea or drifting outside the ports, the