SRI LANKA
ENVIRONMENTAL
DISASTER
Cargo Ship Carrying Tonnes of Chemicals Sinks of Sri Lanka
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Group Fourth
Taruna Arya B. Wahyu Aditya Zhian Luksan S. Zulfi Nurrohman Bernadus V.S.
P.S.
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Legal International Safety Management Code
Framework 01 ISM CODE CHAPTER VIII
SOLAS 1974
02 Safety Of Life At Sea 1974 CHAPTER VII
STCW
03 Internastional Convention on Standards of Training Certification and
Watchkeeping Chapter VI
CSC 1972
04 International Convention For Safe Containers 1972
Name : X-Press Pearl
Flag Of Ship : Singapore
Type : Cargo Ship
DWT : 37.000 Ton
Factory : Zhoushan Changhong
International Shipyard
(China)
Owner : X-Press Feeders
Singapore
CHRONOLOGY
The Ship was An
burning off the environmental
Ship loaded with Nitrit
coast of contamination
Acid,Chemicals and
Plastic Pellets. Colombo in the
Colombo
19 Mei 2021 2 Juni 2021
15 MEI 2021 20 Mei 2021 NOW
X-Press Pearl docks in
The Ship was sinking
Colombo before
when evacuate by Sri
entering the local port
Lankan Navy
Why this happening?
It was tought that the pulse was triggered by the chemical reaction of the
nitric acid, nitric acid is one of the ingridients used for explosive.
It’s also tought that ship workers did not immediately reapair any leaks on
cargoes of nitric acid and the ship is not declearing an emergency when
sailing to shore.
Handle MV. X-Press Pearl
Efforts
?
Spraying water from a
tugboat and than showig
of dry ice from helicopter
to extinguish the fire. Dry
ice is made of CO2
usefull for cutting off the
oxygen supply that
enlagers the fire.
Effect !
EFFECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
EFFECT ON COMPANIES AND STATE
The accident of the ships result in polluted
FLAGS and unhealty marine life, resulting in such
The damaged caused by this incident is $17 deaths as fish and other animals from the
million dollar for cleaning. Moreover, the singapore contamination of the cargo.
country is sunk in the sri lanka sea.
EFFECT ON THE BOAT AND OFFSHORE EFFECT FOR THE ECONOMICS
BOATS The chairman of the surrounding
fisherman union said that a ban of
The ship shank on june 2, 2021 will being pulled to
fishing would affect 4300 families. ROB
safety to remove a load of 25 ton of nitric acid an
HAWES as head of marine CROWFOR
other chemicals. 25 of the ship;s men survived and
and CO said, the cargo loses of the
two of the ship’s men were hospitalized.
express the pearl while also losing the
ship is up to $30-50 million in damages
X-Press Pearl cargo ship that caught fire and shank off the
Conclusion
coast of Sri Lanka,Pastic seeds to flood into coastal areas
and fishing grounds and cause the biggest environmental
crisis of the year. The incident occured in date 20 may
2021 at 9,5 mile northwest of colombo
[Link] CONVENTION ON STANDARD
OF TRAINING AND CERTIFICATE ( STCW ) chapter 6
about the environment, it’s about a marine environment in
which there is safety and responsibility to protect marine
environment, so with this training the crew can control the
emergencies tmight occur aboard the ship by safety first.
The lack of training on the X-Press Pearl ship left the ship
on fire and causing damage to all the
[Link] CONVENTION FOR SAFE
CONTAINERS ( CSC ) 1972 safety rules of the ship the
nitric acid leak was due to l of maintenance in support of
shipping safety and the importance of the hidden
containers nspection. does it fit standard or not, it
becomes a measure in safe sailing
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