Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Apparently the fire was orginally in a building next to the store.
OFG, it does say Ammonium Nitrate. Massive amounts of it. I don't know the difference between any of them or what they are capable of , but said to be for making fertilizer.
The white building next to it , also destroyed has the grain reserves and another building destroyed makes the flour for their bread. All gone.
Another being interviewed said the Israel also have a store with the same stuff in it . Also facing the same problems.
If these sort of things are confiscated off ships, then they have to go through the legal process, and I understand that ownership is the most difficult to identify. So customs will not release .
Mind you when we were there,(70s) the customs were as corrupt as any criminal. They wouldn't allow us to dock until they had their 50 bottles of scotch and 1000's of cigarettes. The shipping companies were used to it and held supplies for that very purpose, as being kept out of port cost the companies a fortune . So they were compicit in encouraging criminal behaviour .
Anyway, they got their scotch and fags, we docked and then we got shot at !