Rescuers have evacuated all crew from a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka as a fire on board intensified and two people were injured, a spokesman for the Sri Lankan Navy said on Tuesday.

Members of the Sri Lankan Navy remove plastic granules and other debris washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which burned in the sea off Sri Lanka's Colombo ...

A container ship carrying chemicals caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka last week. Singapore-flagged MV X-Press Pearl was waiting to enter a port when it caught fire. All of the ship's crew ...

Salvage experts are attempting to tow a fire-stricken container ship into the deep sea as the vessel started to sink off Sri Lanka’s main port Via AP news wire Wednesday 02 June 2021 07:08 BST ...

India's Adani Group said on Monday it had opened an $800 million container terminal in Sri Lanka, right next to a similar facility operated by a Chinese company. The Adani development at Sri Lanka ...

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) has reported a record 48 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in container volumes in the first quarter (Q1 2024).The total grew from 441,032 to 652,766 TEU. SLPA ...

Sri Lanka's container transshipment fell by 6.4% in March 2023 as against the same period last year. The island nation’s total containers handled in the first quarter of the year were down by 12.4% to ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Salvage experts failed to tow a fire-stricken container ship carrying chemicals out to sea and it started to sink Wednesday off Sri Lanka's main port, raising fears of a ...

COLOMBO, May 25 (Reuters) - Rescuers have evacuated all crew from a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka as a fire on board intensified and two people were injured, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Salvage experts failed to tow a fire-stricken container ship carrying chemicals out to sea and it started to sink Wednesday off Sri Lanka's main port, raising fears of ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Salvage experts were attempting to tow a fire-stricken container ship that had been loaded with chemicals into the deep sea as the vessel started to sink Wednesday off ...