In a separate development, four containers with 4.3 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were found on Thursday outside Beirut's seaport, the army said. It said its specialists examined the containers ...
The ammonium nitrate was taken off and discharged into the port's warehouses due to the risk of leaving it on board. The last time ship trackers picked up the vessel's location was Beirut in ...
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even areas outside of Beirut. Ammonium nitrate has a number of different uses, but the two most common are as an agricultural fertilizer and as an explosive. It is highly explosive when it comes ...
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After a deadly blast involving the chemical at the port in Lebanon's capital city, Beirut, residents of Newcastle, north of Sydney, are calling for the removal of 12,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ...
A vessel loaded with 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate – the same chemical that left large parts of Beirut in ruins in an explosion in 2020 – is nearing the port of Abidjan. Campaigners have ...
International Transport Workers' Federation coordinator Ian Bray said a deadly explosion at Beirut Port in 2020 caused by ammonium nitrate showed failures on the Marsgracht could not be under ...