{"id":28423,"date":"2015-02-13T15:21:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=28423"},"modified":"2015-02-13T15:21:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:21:53","slug":"ports-of-lattakia-and-tartous-and-banias-oil-drain-re-opened-after-storm-forced-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=28423","title":{"rendered":"Ports of Lattakia and Tartous and Banias Oil Drain re-opened after storm-forced closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tartous, SANA \u2013 The Ports of Lattakia and Tartous were re-opened for navigation Friday morning, three days after they were closed due to a heavy rainstorm that hit the coastal area and, less strongly, other areas across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ports Director General Maitham al-Youssef announced that besides the two ports, which are located on the Mediterranean Sea, Oil Drain of Banias Refinery was also re-opened.<\/p>\n<p>The storm has started to recede after wind speed had earlier reached 75 km\/h and 90 km\/h at maximum and wave height had been recorded of 6-7 m, al-Youssef explained.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that precautionary measures had been taken before the arrival of the storm, which helped avoid any accidents or damages.<\/p>\n<p>Early last month, the Ports of Lattakia and Tartous were closed for three days under the pressure of another rainstorm, whose maximum wind speed amounted to 100 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Haifa Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tartous, SANA \u2013 The Ports of Lattakia and Tartous were re-opened for navigation Friday morning, three days after they were closed due to a heavy rainstorm that hit the coastal area and, less strongly, other areas across the country. Ports Director General Maitham al-Youssef announced that besides the two ports, which are located on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,122,485,123],"tags":[4318,4317,4316],"class_list":["post-28423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-newscasts","category-money-and-work","category-economic","category-news-money-and-work","tag-banias-oil-drain","tag-ports-of-lattakia-and-tartous","tag-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423"}],"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=28423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}