10 Jan 2022
Call for ‘nurdles’ (plastic pellets) to be classified as hazardous goods for shipping
Classified by the UN as Sri Lanka’s “worst maritime disaster”, the biggest impact of the X-Press Pearl container ship fire and sinking in the Indian Ocean last May was not caused by the heavy fuel oil. Nor was it the hazardous chemicals on board, which included nitric acid, caustic soda and methanol. The most “significant” […]