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When this whole thing had just happened, I read a timeline of the ship. It stopped in Beirut because it was a POS, and was barely able to move. They brought it into port to get it fixed, and the “maritime safety agency” impounded it for being a HUGE POS, and unsafe. Told them they could leave when the following list of items were fixed. The company that owned/ran the ship was running on a shoestring budget, and just plain old didn’t have to money to fix it. So, the cargo was offloaded into the warehouse, and the ship was sent to scrap.

" So, the cargo was offloaded into the warehouse, and the ship was sent to scrap."

Not exactly. The ship was not "sent to scrap" -- it was moored alongside the breakwater, almost immediately across from the destroyed grain-loading docks -- and was sunk by the blast wave.

I did a lot of analysis re the Beirut explosion -- almost none of which is yet posted on FR. In my series below, in frame 1, you can see the "AN Ship" -- moored across the channel from the dock area where the explosion occurred. Somewhere in my files, I have an OHI of the ship after the explosion -- visible underwater at that same site -- capsized onto its starboard side...

(NOTE: The image file is HTTP [not HTTPS], Some browsers may be unable to view it...)

(In the "after" OHI (Frame #8) the sunken "AN Ship" is not visible thru the wave reflections.)

(Obviously, there is a LOT MORE info in that image sequence...)

TXnMA