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Sri Lankan Supreme Court orders $1 Billion payout in X‑Press Pearl case
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has ruled today that the owners of the X‐Press Pearl cargo ship must compensate the countryContinue Reading
Summary
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has ruled today that the owners of the X‐Press Pearl cargo ship must compensate the country with USD 1 billion for environmental damage and economic losses stemming from the vessel's fire and sinking off Colombo in May 2021. The Singapore-flagged vessel caught fire on May 20 and sank days later, spilling billions of plastic pellets and toxic chemicals along Sri Lanka's western coast.
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People
- Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith
- Nalaka Godahewa
- Murdu Fernando
- Ada Derana
Organisations
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka2
- Marine Environment Protection Authority
Places
- Sri Lanka2
- Colombo2
Keywords
- orders2
- pearl2
- press2
- countrycontinue
- compensation
- disaster
- shipping
- billion
- company
- lankan
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