Tag Archives: Beirut explosion investigation

PortandTerminal.com, September 22, 2020 BEIRUT – There has been another large explosion in Lebanon – this time in Ain Qana, a hill-top town in southern Lebanon with a population of 5,585, located about 30 miles south of Beirut. While significant, this latest explosion is nowhere near as large as the explosion that destroyed much of the Port of Beirut in …

REUTERS, SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 BEIRUT (Reuters) – Several tonnes of highly explosive material found at Beirut’s port, just weeks after the same chemical was blamed for causing a massive detonation there, had been in storage for 15 years, the Lebanese president said on Friday. The army said on Sept. 2 it had discovered a stockpile close to the port of …

PortandTerminal.com, September 10, 2020 BEIRUT – A large fire has broken out in Beirut’s port near the site of last month’s explosion, which devastated entire neighborhoods in Lebanon’s capital. The cause of the fire is unknown. Videos posted to social media taken at the scene show flames engulfing an already damaged warehouse in the port and a thick plume of …

PortandTerminal.com, August 16, 2020 BEIRUT – Associated Press (AP) is reporting that a team of FBI investigators was due to arrive in Lebanon this weekend to take part in the probe of Beirut’s massive explosion, a senior U.S official said today after visiting the location of the blast. File Photo: David Hale, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs David …

PortandTerminal.com, August 12, 2020 Hapag-Lloyd is the first shipping line to confirm that it will restart its services to the Port of Beirut | Reports damage to the container terminal to be only minor BEIRUT – Hapag-Lloyd announced yesterday that it will immediately reinstate its services to the Port of Beirut, Lebanon and that it is accepting bookings for cargo …

By Farah Elbahrawy and Abeer Abu Omar for Bloomberg – Lebanon’s government decided to resign as an outraged public demanded accountability for the biggest peacetime catastrophe in the nation’s history. “Resignation is a responsibility,” Health Minister Hamad Hassan said on Monday, almost a week after a catastrophic explosion in the Port of Beirut killed more than 150 people, injured thousands and displaced hundreds …

REUTERS, AUGUST 10, 2020 “I warned them that this could destroy Beirut if it exploded,” said the official, who was involved in writing the letter and declined to be named. BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese security officials warned the prime minister and president last month that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in Beirut’s port posed a security risk and could …