By Waruna Karunatilake and Nidhi Verma COLOMBO/NEW DELHI, Sept 24 (Reuters) – The owners the New Diamond supertanker which caught fire with a cargo of two million barrels of oil...

By Waruna Karunatilake and Nidhi Verma COLOMBO/NEW DELHI, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is seeking at least 340 million rupees ($1.9 million) from the owner of the stricken oil...

By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has initiated repair work on the ruptured fuel oil tank in the engine room of a stricken fully loaded...

SINGAPORE, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan navy said on Tuesday an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded supertanker carrying roughly 2 million barrels of...

By Waruna Karunatilake and Arjuna Ranawana COLOMBO, Sept 9 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan navy towed a stricken supertanker away from the Indian Ocean island’s east coast on Wednesday, while...

By Waruna Karunatilake COLOMBO, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s navy said on Tuesday that an oil slick had been spotted a kilometre from a loaded supertanker off the country’s...

The fire onboard the tanker New Diamond carrying 2 million barrels of oil has been put out, the Sri Lankan Navy has confirmed Saturday. The Panama-flagged New Diamond sent a...

A VLCC carrying 2 million barrels of oil has caught fire off the east coast of Sri Lanka with one crew member reported missing. The Panama-flagged New Diamond sent a...