Lebanon has awarded France’s CMA CGM a contract for the management, operation and maintenance of the container terminal in the port of Beirut for 10 years, Public Works and Transport minister Ali Hamie told Reuters on Thursday. A huge explosion at the port in 2020 killed more than 200 people and damaged entire neighbourhoods, deepening Lebanon’s worst political and economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. “The contract includes $33 mln that will be paid by CMA CGM to develop the work inside the port,” the minister said, without revealing more details about the contract terms. CMA CGM is …