X-Press Feeders has contracted Chinese state-owned salvage company Shanghai Salvage to recover the wreckage of the X-Press Pearl, which was destroyed in a fire off Sri Lanka, as the company faces a second compensation claim from the Indian Ocean nation.
The newly built 2,756TEU X-Press Pearl, which Singapore-based X-Press Feeders assigned to a Straits-Middle East service caught fire on 20 May, shortly after arriving at Colombo, Sri Lanka. The fire is believed to have been caused by chemical...