Sri Lankan firefighters extinguish 12-day blaze on container ship Firefighters in Sri Lanka have extinguished a blaze on a container ship that had been burning for 12 days, as a court imposed a travel ban on the captain Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship 'MV X-Press Pearl', which has been burning for the 11th consecutive day as efforts to put out the fire continue off Sri Lanka's Colombo Harbour. AFP Members of Sri Lankan Navy walk past the stacked sacks filled with debris washed ashore from the Singapore-registered container ship 'MV X-Press Pearl'. AFP A crab roams on a beach polluted with polythene pellets that washed ashore from burning ship 'MV X-Press Pearl'. AP Photo