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The media office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense in the interim government, Zeina Aker, issued the following statement: “The media office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense in the interim government, Zeina Aker, is concerned for the clarification that he received a letter from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport on December 18, 2021. Related to the “importation of chemicals into Syria through Lebanese ports to transport them to their lands in transit” by the ship MSC MASHA 3 from China, which carries 10 containers of sodium sulphide and 350 containers of goods for Lebanese merchants.
The Ministry of Works and Transport declared accordingly: “Considering that the General Directorate of Land and Maritime Transport has stated, according to its reference No. 6/250 of 01/13/2021, that MSC is one of the most important maritime companies in the world, and this company has arranged trips to the port of Beirut to import goods for Lebanese merchants, and since not allowing the ship to enter to unload its cargo would harm Lebanese merchants and the reputation of Lebanon and the port of Beirut, the management The aforementioned proposed to allow the ship in question to enter the port of Beirut, and that the ship’s agent undertake not to unload that cargo at the port of Beirut and to present a new manifest that does not include any sign. To that load.
Consequently, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the Beirut Port Administration declared, “not to allow the entry of the ship except on the condition that the shipping agent agrees not to unload containers containing sodium sulfide” and “stop work with the content of its reference No. 31 / N / 2021, and also request the Ministry of Defense to provide an opinion and statement. On the possibility of entering the ship and the conditions required for it to be built on the thing according to it.
Based on the above, the Ministry of National Defense and the Lebanese Army Command have agreed to unload the cargo from the ship at the request of the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation to enter the ship, avoiding the unloading of the ten containers containing chemical materials and keeping them on board according to a mechanism based on the request of the security services, in particular the Lebanese army and customs, separately inspect each container to be unloaded at the port of Beirut, to make sure it is free of sulfur sodium or any other flammable or hazardous chemical material, as long as the container owners or their agents attend the process of opening and inspection of each container, and in case they do not attend, the container remains on the ship and back with Your load “.
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