News / Insurers brace as X-Press Pearl blaze costs soar after environmental damage

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03/06/2021

The owner of the nitric acid cargo that leaked on the X-Press Pearl “should have known better” and should have packaged the cargo more securely, according to nn industry expert.

The source, who did not want to be named, said the cargo was correctly declared but ...

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