Sri Lanka’s supreme court has ordered the shipping company X-Press Feeders to pay $1 billion in compensation, over environmental and economic damage caused by a container ship which sank off the coast of Colombo four years ago.
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The X-Press Pearl was carrying chemicals including nitric acid when a fire broke out on board and burned for 13 days before the vessel sank.
The toxic spill caused widespread damage to marine life and the ocean’s ecosystem.
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