Sri Lanka's Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will have to pay thousands of dollars in demurrage daily as it repairs faulty underwater hoses used to unload oil from tankers at the Colombo port's outer harbor. "We had to stop unloading oil from a tanker at the Colombo outer harbor when cracks were detected in two underwater hoses," Anil Obeyesekere, the firm's chairman, said. "We replaced the hoses and then found that a third hose had also developed cracks. It will be replaced within five days," he said. Obeyesekere said two tankers, each carrying 60,000 tons of crude oil, were currently in the harbor. One had already unloaded 40,000 tons. "The tankers are normally in and out in four days, but due to this problem they will be delayed.