Victims of Beirut’s deadly 2020 port blast have filed a quarter-billion-dollar lawsuit in Texas which blames a U.K.-based company for the devastation that killed more than 230 people and left 300,000 homeless. U.K.-registered geophysical services group Spectrum Geo recklessly chartered the MV Rhosus, a “barely seaworthy” vessel to transport 160 tonnes of seismic survey equipment in 2013 when the ship was already overloaded with 2,750 tonnes of explosive ammonium nitrate, the lawsuit filed by victims of the blast alleges. The