BEIRUT: Rats and pigeons will no longer be able to penetrate the grain silos at the Beirut Port, Economy Minister Alain Hakim assured Monday after a visit to the facility.

However, a Daily Star photographer witnessed pigeons feeding on wheat that was poured from the silos into the open beds of delivery trucks.

“The silos were insulated from rodents, birds, and [everything that comes] from the port,” Hakim told reporters after his tour.