{"id":227407,"date":"2021-03-24T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/107.6.182.27\/en\/?p=227407"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:32:27","slug":"syrian-ports-closed-due-to-prevailing-weather-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=227407","title":{"rendered":"Syrian ports closed due to prevailing weather conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Damascus, SANA- Transport Ministry said Wednesday that all Syrian ports in Lattakia and Tartous were closed starting from 13:00 p.m. till further notice in face of maritime navigation due to the prevailing weather conditions.<br \/>\nEngineer Hani Shariqi, who is charged with management of General Directorate of Ports, told SANA in a statement, that the ports of Tartous and Lattakia, in addition to the fishing and picnic ports, were closed due to the wind speed, which is currently reached about 80 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shariqi pointed out that ships and boats were asked to take precautions and safety measures followed in such cases to avoid any accidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Directorate General of Meteorology Department, the country is affected by a low air pressure in all layers of the atmosphere, and the winds are southwesterly of moderate speed, with gusts exceeding 80 km\/h, and the sea waves will be medium to high in amplitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shaza al-Ashkar\/Hala Zain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Transport Ministry said Wednesday that all Syrian ports in Lattakia and Tartous were closed starting from 13:00 p.m. till further notice in face of maritime navigation due to the prevailing weather conditions. Engineer Hani Shariqi, who is charged with management of General Directorate of Ports, told SANA in a statement, that the ports &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,485,6987,115,488],"tags":[12320,6888,8481,6889,3299],"class_list":["post-227407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-economic","category-latest-news","category-local","category-tourism1","tag-closed","tag-lattakia","tag-ports","tag-tartous","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}