North Korea appears to have nearly completed construction on a new pier at its Nampho oil terminal, recent satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows.

The facility, located on the DPRK’s western side, is the country’s primary terminal for handling fuel products from China, though it is also probably used as s refueling point by the North’s ships.

Work on a new pier which would give the facility additional capabilities for offloading fuel products or ship refueling, started in the first half of 2016, though seemed to stall before the project was complete.[/p