X-Press Pearl was denied entry in India and Qatar before catching fire off Colombo
"Speaking with Splash today from Singapore, Tim Hartnoll, the executive chairman of X-Press Feeders, said that poor packaging was responsible for the acid leak, which the crew had detected while in the Arabian Sea thousands of kilometres away from Sri Lanka. On detecting the leak, the ship’s captain then contacted two ports – Hazira on the west coast of India and Hamad in Qatar – requesting to offload the containers in question. The requests were denied and the ship, which was delivered from a yard in China this February, made its way to Sri Lanka.
“It was a case of not in my backyard syndrome,” Hartnoll said"
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Ship is only 3 months old and fire started due to leakage of acid.
