Shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd ‘fully operational’ after Beirut port blast

  • Date: 29-Sep-2020
  • Source: Arabian Business
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Lebanon
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Shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd ‘fully operational’ after Beirut port blast

Twenty minutes were enough to save the lives of Hapag-Lloyd's employees, but not the container carrier's offices which were completely destroyed by the Beirut Port explosion on August 4.

The employees had left the container station just minutes before the blast and were not injured, but offices located in Gemmayzeh, within 200m of the blast site were devastated.

Beirut Container Terminal Consortium sources tell Arabian Business nearly 12,000 containers were unloaded between August 11-24

"Thankfully no one in our team got injured,” Gilbert Khoury, CEO of Tourism & Shipping Services (TSS) told Arabian Business.

Shipping companies were the most affected by the explosion, as their operations had been disrupted after being forced to divert vessels from the heavily damaged port, with damage estimated at $345 million and losses at $710 million.

Several operators said their