After media reports circulated in recent hours claiming that Hezbollah has "reasserted control over the Port of Beirut and is attempting to facilitate the smuggling of equipment, weapons, and money without any inspection or oversight," Minister of Public Works Fayez Rasamny visited the port and held a press conference. He confirmed that "we will work at the Beirut Port with the same strength that we worked with at the airport; I met today with the security agencies at the port, and security here is tightly controlled." He added, "We will not allow anyone to doubt the port's operational capability, and we will not tolerate the statements made yesterday."

Rasamny emphasized that "security is important and a top priority; we need to work on determining the legality of the port and its board of directors, review, amend, and activate the laws, and the temporary committee will brief me on everything that needs to be addressed, in order to work on developing them."