Port authorities in Ivory Coast have dismissed safety fears about a moored boat loaded with 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ...

Officials at the Ivorian port of Abidjan are taking precautions ahead of the arrival of a ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of ...

Abidjan port officials said Tuesday that more than a third of a 20,000-tonne shipment of ammonium nitrate fertiliser, an ingredient in explosives, was due for delivery to an Ivorian mining firm.

Ivorian authorities have stated that a ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate does not pose a threat to public safety. Used for fertilisers, the chemical still associated with tragedies, such ...

On Monday morning port and customs officials will meet with owners of both the cargo and the vessel to examine the situation ...

A vessel loaded with 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate – the same chemical that left large parts of Beirut in ruins in an ...

Port officials in the Ivory Coast's largest city Abidjan on Monday insisted that a ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate moored in its outer harbour posed "no danger".

In the wake of the death of eight security personnel and a driver in a Naxal attack in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, experts have sought to know how the explosives remained undetected despite the demining ...

Ammonium nitrate is not explosive unless exposed to high temperatures and mixed with organic substances. International Transport Workers' Federation coordinator Ian Bray said a deadly explosion at ...

The lawsuit alleges that Winston Weaver raised the risk of a fire or explosion by mishandling potentially volatile ammonium ...