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LEBANON - GERMANY - PORT
Members of a German delegation and Lebanese officials (R to L) German Ambassador to Lebanon Andreas Kindl, Governor of Beirut Marwan Abboud, Managing Director at Colliers Germany and Head of Architecture and Workplace Consulting Hermann Schnell, associate partner responsible for Middle East and Africa at Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH Lars Greiner, Managing Director at Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH Suheil Mahayni, and President of the Lebanese German Business Council Elias Assouad, hold a press conference in the Lebanese capital Beirut, on April 9, 2021. The delegation unveiled a spectacular multi-billion-dollar project to rebuild Beirut port and its surroundings but admitted it was contingent on far-reaching government reforms.
Parts of Beirut and adjacent neighbourhoods were destroyed when fire ignited poorly stored ammonium nitrate on August 4, causing one of the world's largest ever non-nuclear explosions and killing more than 200 people.

ANWAR AMRO / AFP