REPORT: PM tells Bou Saab filling Beirut port’s fourth basin will be suspended

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18-02-2015 | 02:18
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REPORT: PM tells Bou Saab filling Beirut port’s fourth basin will be suspended
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REPORT: PM tells Bou Saab filling Beirut port’s fourth basin will be suspended

Education Minister Elias Bou Saab told LBCI on Wednesday that he called Prime Minister Tammam Salam who confirmed that he was not aware of the resumption of the filling works of the fourth basin of the Beirut port.

In this regard, Bou Saab said that Salam stressed that the works will be suspended until consensus is reached.

Bou Saab added that it remains to be revealed as to which authority is responsible for supervising undergoing works at Beirut port, stressing that the filling of the fourth basin will be suspended until a legal solution is found.

Truck owners had resumed their sit-in in the morning after the filling works resumed, which were put to an end as soon as the Director General of General Security Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim arrived to the port to voice solidarity with the truckers.

Earlier this month, Beirut Port director Hassan Qoreitem declared that the filling of the port’s basin has been suspended in order to pave the way for other solutions, following a meeting with Education Minister Elias Bou Saab.
 
The truckers syndicate commenced an open-ended sit-in a few days earlier, suspending all work until the said project is referred to the Lebanese cabinet.    
 
The union also blocked the entrances to the port, thus halting the entry and exit of goods at the facility.         
 
The aforementioned project will provide more space to store containers. But there are fears that turning the Beirut port into a transshipment hub would direct large vessels to the Port of Tripoli as the 4th basin will no longer be able to receive big cargo ships.
 
As a result, hundreds of Beirut port employees, mostly truckers, may lose their jobs.
 
 
For more details, watch Nada Andraos' report in the video above

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