WFP keeps shiploads of food aid flowing to Lebanon

WFP keeps shiploads of food aid flowing to Lebanon    The United Nations World Food Program continues to dispatch shiploads of food aid from ports throughout the Mediterranean to war-battered Lebanon.
   The food aid is largely covered by a $2.55 million donation from the French government.
   A vessel carrying ready-to-eat meals will sail from Marseilles, France, to Lebanon later this week and may stop at the UN depot in Brindisi, Italy to load additional humanitarian cargo.
   The Greek vessel “Anamcara,” which is chartered by the WFP, arrived in Brindisi late Aug. 6 and will be loaded with high energy biscuits; mineral water; three trucks, a water purification system and other non-food items for World Vision; two ambulances and medicines for Caritas Lebanon; and tents, blankets, kitchen sets and other non-food items for InterSOS.
   The WFP said another ship, the “Kazim Genc,” is loading at Mersin, Turkey, with 500 tons of wheat flour and 46 tons of vegetable oil for Lattakia, Syria, and 2,456 tons of wheat flour, 95 tons of pasta, and 183 tons of pulses for Beirut.