About 18 months after the massive X-Press Pearl disaster, Sri Lanka has reportedly filed some charges against the ship’s crew member, however, the government stands accused of being consistently opaque on the extent of the tragedy, being extremely slow in suing for compensation, and also not demanding enough.
The Singapore-registered ship, loaded with plastic pellets and hazardous chemicals, caught fire off the west coast of Sri Lanka in May 2021, due to a nitric acid leakage. However, 25...