{"id":13897,"date":"2025-07-26T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2025-07-26T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:02:21","slug":"sri-lankas-top-court-orders-1bn-payout-over-x-press-pearl-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=13897","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s top court orders $1bn payout over X-Press Pearl disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Sri Lanka\u2019s top court orders $1bn payout over X-Press Pearl disaster<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered the owners and operators of the X-Press Pearl container vessel to pay $1bn in compensation for the devastating environmental and economic damage caused when the ship caught fire and sank off Colombo in 2021. Described by the court as \u201cthe most severe marine environmental catastrophe in the country\u2019s history\u201d, \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Sam Chambers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/sri-lankas-top-court-orders-1bn-payout-over-x-press-pearl-disaster\/\">Go to splash 24&#215;7<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s top court orders $1bn payout over X-Press Pearl disaster Sri Lanka\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered the owners and operators of the X-Press Pearl container vessel to pay $1bn in compensation for the devastating environmental and economic damage caused when the ship caught fire and sank off Colombo in 2021. Described by the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,100,625,561,18,1252],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-13897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-containers","category-finance-and-insurance","category-regulatory","category-splash24x7","category-sri-lanka","tag-splash24x7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}