"I opened my inbox and saw a letter about the Rhosus; I thought maybe they were sending me money, my salary," he said.The 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that blew up in Beirut's port wasn't supposed to have been in Lebanon at all. Lebanese authorities have taken into custody 16 people as part of an investigation into the Beirut port warehouse explosion that shook the … When Boris Prokoshev, a former sea captain spending his retirement years in a Russian village, woke up and found an email saying a ship he once commanded had carried the ammonium nitrate that blew up swathes of Beirut, he was astonished.The email was from a journalist, he said, and titled with the name of the MV Rhosus, which he had captained on a voyage that he was never paid for.
The moment typified Lebanon’s political dilemma. It was only after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut that most people in Lebanon learned about the 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar at the city’s port. Cause ... reported it was at an oil storage facility or a chemicals storage facility. The Director General of Lebanese Public Security … The Rhosus was soon impounded by the Lebanese authorities for failing to pay port fees, and never left the port again.The cargo was transferred to a port warehouse only after the crew disembarked and headed back to Ukraine in 2014, Prokoshev said. Explosion sparks panic over food shortages The annihilation of the port in Tuesday's explosion has further strained food access for a population that relies on imports for 85 per cent of … The 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that blew up in Beirut's port wasn't supposed to have been in Lebanon at all.
The Dutch ambassador's wife, Hedwig Waltmans-Molier, was seriously injured and later died of her injuries. Letters show officials knew of danger posed by ammonium nitrate cargo at Beirut port six years before deadly blast. There were warehouses in the port that stored explosives and chemicals including nitrates, common components of fertilizers and explosives. It remained there ever since -- until it detonated on Tuesday.According to the captain, the ship sank several years after they left.
The second blast was felt in northern Israel and in Cyprus, 240 kilometres (150 miles) away. By order of the judge, the cargo was brought ashore in 2014 and placed in Warehouse 12 at the port,Customs officials had sent letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issue of the confiscated cargo, proposing that the ammonium nitrate be either exported, given to the In view of the serious danger of keeping these goods in the hangar in unsuitable climatic conditions, we reaffirm our request to please request the marine agency to re-export these goods immediately to preserve the safety of the port and those working in it, or to look into agreeing to sell this amountOn the afternoon of 4 August 2020, a fire broke out in Warehouse 12, waterside at the The first explosion, at about 18:07 local time (15:07 UTC), sent up a cloud of smoke followed by flashes of light from the stored fireworks;Despite inefficient transmission of the shock waves into the ground,There were warehouses in the port that stored explosives and chemicals including Following the explosions, 177 people were confirmed dead with an additional 30 missing,The explosion overturned cars and stripped steel-framed buildings of their cladding.The damage from the blast affected over half of Beirut, with the likely cost above $15 billion and insured losses at around $3 billion.The government formed an investigation committee led by On 5 August, the Council agreed to place sixteen Beirut port officials who had overseen storage and security since 2014 under In the first week after the explosion, civilians gathered in hundreds to volunteer to clean up the debris on the streets and inside homes and businesses in Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced that 5 August, the day after the explosions, would be a national day of mourning.Noting there were 30 people missing after the deadly blast in the capital, Hamad told a local TV channel that the number of fatalities could reach up to 200.Aftermath of the explosions, showing the destroyed grain silo to the left and the flooded The captain, Boris Prokoshev, wrote that Grechushkin had told him he had gone bankrupt, but noted that he did not believe Grechushkin.Ammonium nitrate has a long history of industrial disasters globally (see Because the explosion occurred on the earth's surface, the The five injured were connected to the Dutch embassy.