A German shipping company that transports clay slurry for use in U.S. paper mills pleaded guilty and was sentenced Nov. 2 in Portland, Maine, for obstruction of justice and maintaining falsified logbooks to conceal use of a “magic pipe” to conceal discharges of oily bilge waste, the U.S. Justice Department said.
MST Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition und Transport GmbH (MST), based in Bavaria, Germany, pleaded guilty to the charges involving one of its bulk carriers, the 607’x76’, 27,674 dwt Marguer...