{"id":7843,"date":"2003-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2003\/07\/01\/beirut-aims-to-crack-iraqi-humanitarian-market\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:37:03","slug":"beirut-aims-to-crack-iraqi-humanitarian-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east\/beirut-aims-to-crack-iraqi-humanitarian-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Beirut aims to crack Iraqi humanitarian market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mjc-gate__lead-in\"><p>The UNs World Food Programme is currently making use of six Middle East ports to direct relief aid through to Iraq. Lebanon has recently joined Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and Iran after agreeing to cut several port tariffs at Beirut by 50% and abolish others completely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mjc-gate mjc-gate--full mjc-gate--anon\" data-mjc-gate=\"anon\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"mjc-gate__body\">\n\n        \n                            <h2 class=\"mjc-gate__heading\">Continue reading this article<\/h2>\n            \n                            <p class=\"mjc-gate__text\">Registration is currently closed. Sign in if you already have an account.<\/p>\n            \n        \n                    <p class=\"mjc-gate__actions\">\n                <a class=\"btn btn-primary mjc-gate__button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/login\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portstrategy.com%2Fgreenport%2Fnews%2Fmiddle-east%2Fbeirut-aims-to-crack-iraqi-humanitarian-market%2F\">\n                    Sign in                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNs World Food Programme is currently making use of six Middle East ports to direct relief aid through to Iraq. Lebanon has recently joined Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey and Iran after agreeing to cut several port tariffs at Beirut by 50% and abolish others completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7845,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}