Tag: X Press Pearl

According to Sri Lankan reports, the government pledged to study the X Press Pearl disaster will launch an investigation over it.

According to local news, an interim payment has been given to the Sri Lankan government by the insurers of the X-Press Pearl, a ship that went down two years ago off the western coast of Sri Lanka.

On 28th April, Ajith Mannapperuma, Chair of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, instructed the officials of the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) to develop a guideline setting out action to be taken in the event of a disaster, such as the X-Press Pearl Maritime Disaster.

Sri Lanka’s Marine Environment Protection Agency (MEPA) is expecting the remaining components of the containership X-Press Pearl to be removed by this week.

Mr. Jens Jaeger, IUMI, highlights the spill risk of plastic resin pellets, so called “nurdles”, and work at the IMO to mitigate this risk.

Risks associated with the transport of chemicals and plastics in ever-larger container ships need to be addressed, say the authors of a study into the impacts on people and the environment of toxic chemicals released during the X-Press Pearl incident.