Tag: Sri Lanka

According to the Director General of Health Services, foreign national seafarers/sea marshals should obtain approval from the Foreign Ministry to enter Sri Lanka and should be quarantined in an isolation centre.

Sri Lankan environmental groups are urging for the nation's president to intervene and secure a rapid cleanup of the wreck of the container feeder XPress Pearl.

X-Press Feeders, operator of the containership X-Press Pearl, made an initial payment of $3.6 million to the Sri Lankan government.

The insurers of the X-Press Pearl, the container ship which sustained fire and sank off Sri Lanka in early June causing major pollution, have agreed to pay approximately Rs 720 Million US ($3.6 million) as compensation to the Sri Lankan fishermen affected by the disaster.

Air-passengers who have been to India, Vietnam, South American countries and South Africa within 14 days (including transit) are restricted to arrive at Sri Lanka until further notice.

Following the sinking incident of the MV X-press Pearl off Sri Lanka’s west coast, authorities informed of wildlife harm.

A UN team of oil spill and chemical experts, provided by the EU, is working with the Sri Lankan Government to assess the environmental impact of the MV X-press Pearl, which sank off Colombo last month. 

X-Press Feeders, operators of the container ship ‘X-Press Pearl’, confirmed that the wreck is now wholly sitting on the seabed at a depth of 21 meters.

The captain of X-Press Pearl that was arrested on June 14, appeared before the court, where he was granted bail.

Sri Lankan authorities have reportedly arrested the captain of the ill-fated MV X-Press Pearl container ship which caught fire off Port of Colombo last month, causing major marine pollution.