The Beirut port explosion. What went wrong?
Recently, a massive explosion took place at the Port of Beirut, Lebanon that caused the death of almost 200 people and more than 5000 people were injured. The port explosion had also rocked the entire City of Beirut to as far as 9 kilometers in distance. The explosion in the port had came from the port warehouse where about 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were found to have been stored there since 2014, when a Russian vessel, MV Rhosus destined to Mozambique stopped at the port due to financial constraint of the vessel's owner which had resulted to a mutiny among the crews onboard. The vessel was then detained by the port authorities for operation violation, unpaid port fees and many complaints by the Russian and Ukrainian crews over their unpaid salaries and shortage of supplies. The sailing to its original destination was never resume since. As the result, the cargos on the vessel, including that of the 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate which was considered a Dangerous Cargo (DG)