A London-based company that delivered the ammonium nitrate that exploded in 2020 at Beirut’s port has been ordered to pay compensation to some families, according to the Beirut Bar Association. Chemical trading firm Savaro Ltd was found liable four months ago after being suspected of chartering the shipment of the ammonium nitrate in 2013 that […]
Interpol has issued red notices for the captain and owner of the ship that carried the chemicals which devastated Beirut in an explosion in August, killing 200 people, Lebanon’s state media said, according to Reuters. Five months since one of the biggest non-nuclear blasts on record, big questions remain about the ammonium nitrate that detonated after being stored […]
The World Bank’s team has catalogued seven shipwrecks in Beirut (according to Insurance Marine News), following the explosion of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse in early August. The initial damage assessment for the total impact of the explosion is between $3.8bn and $4.6bn. The Bank also catalogued a wide range of damaged infrastructure assets. The […]
The countdown to catastrophe in Beirut started more than six years ago when a troubled, Russian-leased cargo ship made an unscheduled stop at the city’s port says the New York Times. The ship was trailed by debts, crewed by disgruntled sailors and dogged by a small hole in its hull that meant water had to […]
A significant explosion has occurred in the vicinity of the port of Beirut. Eyewitness observers, social media footage and local intelligence sources all confirm that a large ‘shockwave’ was visible, and caused significant structural damage to nearby buildings, with the blast radius extending at least 5-10 km from the epicentre of the explosion, says Dryad […]