Beirut
Beirut is a seaport on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and Capital city of Lebanon. Since the 1980s, Lebanon has been experiencing armed conflict involving armed and proxy forces of local factions and neighbouring countries. On August 4, 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port detonated. It caused at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and $15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.
At the same time, CMA CGM signed a contact to manage Beirut container terminal which includes an ambitious investment plan. However, the port and country remain in a state of instability.
LimakPort Iskenderun International Port ready to help Lebanon
Iskenderun, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 13, 2020 – LimakPort Iskenderun International Port in southeastern Turkey is available to provide any assistance...
A positive surprise: Beirut port container terminal reopens
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 12, 2020 – Container shippers are resuming calls of their ships to Beirut only four days after the explosion there, that...
Hapag-Lloyd looks to restart Beirut port services
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 12, 2020 – The German shipping line, Hapag-Lloyd AG, has told its customers that the Beirut container terminal...
CMA CGM launches the “A Humanitarian Ship for Lebanon” campaign to ship emergency humanitarian aid
An international charitable initiative to send medical equipment and essential goods and products – August 10, 2020 One of the CMA CGM Group’s ro-ro...
Turkey makes ports available to Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 10, 2020 – Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Lebanon on...
Slovenia provided emergency humanitarian aid to the people of Beirut
The Government of Slovenia has allocated a contribution of €200,000 to Lebanon for emergency humanitarian aid, which is intended for the people of Beirut...
Assistance of Slovenia to Lebanon during the explosion in Beirut
Slovenia decided to allocate a contribution of €200,000 to Lebanon for emergency humanitarian aid and to send an expert to coordinate international aid to...
Analysis – Port of Tripoli must replace destroyed Beirut as entry gate to Lebanon
Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 8, 2020 – The second busiest Lebanese port of Tripoli is to take over the functions of Beirut port, obliterated by a...
CMA CGM: Shipments to Lebanon
News – CMA CGM – August 7, 2020 Following the events which took place on August 4 in Beirut causing considerable casualties and material damage,...
Analysis – The aftermath of the Beirut port obliteration
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 7, 2020 – The port of Beirut, Lebanon’s busiest port, is not going to recover for many months after what is...
Beirut explosion calls for attention at lack of port security: The Conversation
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 6, 2020 – The huge explosion in the port of Beirut calls to attention the tremendous consequences of a lack of port...
Tripoli port ready to step up and support supplies to Lebanon
Tripoli, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 5, 2020 – Following the destruction of the port of Beirut yesterday by a giant explosion, Ahmad Tamer,...
CMA CGM offers immediate support to explosion-hit Beirut port
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 5, 2020 – A massive explosion shook the port city of Beirut yesterday and at this time has killed over 100 people....
Deadly blast at Beirut port
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) August 5, 2020 – Beirut awoke to scenes of devastation on August 5, following two huge explosions in the port which sent a...
Terms for tender of concession of Beirut port container terminal change
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) July 19, 2020 – Earlier this year, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport issued a tender for the concession of Beirut...
Beirut port sees TEU number nearly halve in March 2020
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – In the month of March 2020, the port of Beirut reported total TEU handling of 35,290, down from 62,217 in...
Five consortia interested in operating Beirut port container terminal
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) March 30, 2020 – The Ministry of Public Works and Transport issued a tender for the concession of Beirut port container...
Beirut port container terminal set for ownership tender, CMA CGM interested
Beirut, Lebanon (Ports Europe) March 2, 2020 – The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has issued a tender for the concession of Beirut port container...
CMA CGM hopes to win concession for Beirut port container terminal
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) July 29, 2019 – The Port of Beirut (port de Beyrouth) is expected to announce a tender for the concession of a container...
Lebanese Fransabank Representative visits SRCIC in Shanghai
Beirut, Lebanon (PortSEurope) July 7, 2019 – Walid Daouk, Board Member of Fransabank Group and former Information Minister of Lebanon, has visited the...