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Those are grain silos, apparently:

> Satellite images comparing the area before and after the explosion show the complete destruction of Beirut's port. The grain silos that were next to the site of the explosion are still partially upright, although it's believed that up to 85 percent of the country's grain stocks have been lost. (Lebanon imports 80 percent of its food supply, and Beirut normally handles 60 percent of the country's total imports.)

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/what-we-know-about-t...

Those are grain silos, which are incredibly strong structures.

You can see an image of the damage done to the silos here:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/up-to-300000-...

Lebanon's economy is in the gutter, so they really needed that grain...what a sad situation.

It looks like they may be able to save at least some of it.

Would you eat that stuff? It might have a little fertilizer in it. Maybe more than the FDA limits.

Is is possible that the grain acted as a shock absorber?

It was mostly obliterated, the angle in this image shows the side which was least affected

It's a grain silo. It seems it was full. In any case, the cylindrical walls should withstand a lot of punishment before collapsing. It also seems the first row of siloes was destroyed.