Could Sri Lanka's ship fire have been avoided? Here's what we can learn from the shocking environmental disaster
- Written by Claudio Bozzi, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
Hundreds of dead turtles continue to wash ashore in Sri Lanka, almost two months after a newly built container ship caught fire while anchored off Colombo’s port.
The X-Press Pearl was carrying 1,486 containers and burned for two weeks. It then sunk in early June, causing one of Sri Lanka’s greatest environmental disasters.
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