Others pointed to a 2,750 ton shipment of ammonium nitrate that had been sitting at the Port since at least late 2013. Al Jazeera reported that, despite repeated requests for guidance by the customs authority, no decision were made regarding what to do with this shipment. Instead, it simply remained in a warehouse at the port.
This matched statements from the Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who blamed a shipment of 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate which had been sitting at the port for six years.
I guess they no longer need to worry about what to do with it. They have that going for them.
The going rate for ammonium nitrate is apparently about $550 per ton. So that was about $1.5M in chemicals sitting there for 6+ years, incurring who knows what kind of costs for storage? Odd. Just one of many odd things about this.