Lebanon’s Tripoli to serve as main port after Beirut blast

Lebanon’s Tripoli to serve as main port after Beirut blast

The government is assessing capabilities of Tripoli in the north of the country and other ports

The Tripoli port will serve as Lebanon's main shipping centre after an explosion left the Beirut port largely unusable, Minister of Public Works Michel Najjar said.

The government is assessing capabilities of Tripoli in the north of the country and other ports, he told LBCI television in an interview. The Tripoli port is operating at 40% of its capacity and is able to receive Beirut-bound ships, an official at the port told the channel in a separate interview.

Lebanon has enough wheat stockpile to last for a month-and-a-half and isn't expected to face a crisis, Al Akhbar reported. The silos at the Beirut port, which has capacity of 120,000 tons, were almost empty at the time of