On 4 August 2020 the city of Beirut was rocked by an enormous blast as hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in the Port of Beirut exploded. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, killing more than 200 people, wounding thousands, and devastating swathes of Beirut.
5-years on from this devastating blast, Portia remembers all the people affected by this disaster but especially those colleagues from our partners at Beirut Container Terminal Consortium that went to work that day but never made it home.
