Taiwan’s Keelung city government has stopped the demolition of a derelict shipyard due to lack of authorisation.

The Agenna yard on Peace Island could now be preserved as a historic site, the China Post reported.

Mayor Lin Yu-chang expressed his outrage this week after learning that workmen were starting to knock down its remaining structures.

The shipyard was built on land rented in the 1960s by a US company to construct commercial vessels.

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