TT Club: X-Press Pearl highlights duty of care in shipping hazardous cargo
The X-Press Pearl fire has highlighted the continuing problem of ship fires caused by the mishandling of dangerous goods, international transport and logistics insurer TT Club noted.
The Singapore-registered container ship had been carrying 25 tonnes of nitric acid, along with other chemicals and cosmetics, when it caught fire near on May 20.
Many of the ship’s 1,486 containers tumbled into the sea near the Port of Colombo before the huge blaze, which burned for two weeks, was put out earlier this week.
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