Calls for international tribunal over X-Press Pearl unpaid compensation

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Attorney-at-Law Dr. Ravindranath Dabare, co-founder of the Centre for Environmental Justice, called on Thursday for an international tribunal to hold transnational corporations accountable for environmental damage, citing the X-Press Pearl disaster.

Speaking at a Friends of the Earth International session at the UN compound in Geneva, Dabare said Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ordered the X-Press Pearl group to pay $1 billion in compensation in July 2025, but only $1 million has reportedly been paid to date.

The 2021 ship fire off Sri Lanka's western coast released nitric acid, caustic soda, methanol, and about 1,680 tonnes of plastic pellets. Insurers' legal representatives arrived in Sri Lanka on 29 September for discussions with Treasury and Attorney General's Department officials on implementing the judgment.

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