INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Shafaq News / The Iraqi Border Ports Authority disclosed on Friday details about the process of evacuating dangerous chemical substances
from the country's ports and airports.The spokesman for the authority, Aladdin al-Qaisi, told Shafaq News agency that all chemical
substances were evacuated after the legal delay of storing them in the country's ports ended.He added that a team had been assigned to
evacuate 157 containers and 123 packages from Umm Qar port, al-Ma'aqal port, and the Baghdad and Basra airports.All substances were
transferred and stored in sites away from residential areas, according to al-Qaisi
Following the Beirut Port explosion, Lebanon, Iraq's Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, issued an order on August 6, 2020, to evacuate
dangerous substances from Iraq's ports to prevent the recurrence of the Lebanese tragedy
On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least
218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, US$15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.
