The Acting General Director of Civil Aviation, Fadi Al-Hassan, confirmed that “the information that talked about the suspension of air traffic at Beirut International Airport is not true.”
The representative of fuel distributors in Lebanon, Fadi Abu Chakra, attributed the cause of the fuel crisis, and Coral’s intention, among several other companies, to close its stations in all Lebanon as of today, to “the inability of the ships that have been waiting since Almost a month at sea, and it cannot empty the quantities of imported fuel, as a result of the dispute over the issue of opening credits between the “Banque du Liban,” which seeks to implement the decision to lift subsidies on fuel, and therefore the new price, and the government through the Ministry of Energy and Water Which is still rejecting, and wants to keep things according to the current situation.”