BEIRUT (CNN) -- Two United Nations ships ferried over 4,500 tons of food and humanitarian supplies for various aid agencies and docked in Beirut Sunday, officials with U.N.'s World Food Program said.
Previously U.N. chartered ships docked in Syria and their contents were trucked into Lebanon, WFP project manager Thomas Keusters said.
The first ship arrived from Italy via Cyprus with 13 SUVs, food, water, portable toilets, medical supplies, hygiene kits and 200 tons of diesel fuel. Half of the fuel has been allotted to run the land convoys that will carry the aid throughout the country. The other half will be distributed to hospitals, Keusters said.
The second ship arrived from Turkey carrying 3,000 tons of food -- mainly wheat, flour and pasta.
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