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Under the title: “Containers of death” threatening Beirut and its port again, Paula Asateh wrote in the newspaper “Asharq Al-Awsat”: Any visitor to the port of Beirut can be fooled by the hundreds of colored containers placed in the area designated for him, which were not damaged by the explosion that occurred last August. Its bright colors, and the way it is arranged, may even push you to think about taking pictures of her or with her without answering, not even for a moment in your mind, that some of them contain hazardous explosive materials that can lead to a “new August 4”, in the event that lightning is found, like the one that lit tons. From ammonium nitrate that exploded last summer.
There are currently 52 containers in the port containing hazardous materials that a specialized German company is working on processing and exporting them abroad. After the Lebanese authorities signed a contract last month with the company “Combi Lift” to remove “hazardous, flammable and reactive acid materials” from 49 warehouses in the port, the Director General of Port Management and Investments of Beirut on behalf of Al-Qaisi revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the number of containers increased to 52 after 3 new containers were found containing hazardous materials, adding: “The German company is currently working on unloading the hazardous materials that have been found that there are 8 types of (acid) and not (nitrates), from the spent containers and places them in new containers to be shipped abroad later The German and Lebanese environment ministries issue reports related to each container to ensure that the process of shipping is carried out in accordance with European laws and regulations.
Al-Qaisi explained that the deportation process has not yet started, “and we are still in the unloading, packing and packing stage,” noting that the presence of all these dangerous materials in the port is mainly due to “negligence and termination of the administrative mechanisms to destroy these materials or re-export them, which is a responsibility that the port administration does not have. ” .
Source: Paula Astih – Middle East
