February 28, 2014 Letter from the National Trading and Shipping Agency
To: Head of the Manifest Department
On November 21, 2013, “Rhosus” arrived to Beirut Port to ship equipment. It was carrying 2755.500 tons of High Density Ammonium Nitrate IMO 5.1 in 2750 big bags.
As far as we know, the Unified list of the ship does not mention the type of merchandise but mentions only its number, weight and the destination country, noting that we mentioned the content and type of these goods in the Notice and Recognition (علم وخبر), and in the application we attached with the Notice and Recognition and in NAJEM [Custom’s software] in the Transit section. The maritime detachment was given a copy of the transit manifest upon the ship’s arrival in which the content of the merchandise was mentioned.
We kindly ask you to exempt us from this violation since we did not know that we should mention the type of the merchandise on the Unified List.
Thank you for your cooperation.