Colombo, July 24, 2025 (AFP) - Sri Lanka orders Singapore shipowner to pay US$1 bn over marine disaster

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Sri Lanka's highest court on Thursday ordered a Singaporean shipping firm to pay US$1 billion in damages for causing the island's worst marine pollution when its vessel sank four years ago. The Supreme Court directed Express Feeders, the owners of the MV X-Press Pearl which sank off Colombo Port in June 2021 after a fire that raged for nearly two weeks, to pay the money within a year. "The X-Press Pearl... shall make further compensation payments......

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