Shipping Company Fined $1.65 Million for Concealing Oily Water Discharge

A Singapore-based shipping company was fined $1,650,000.
Unix Line PTE Ltd pleaded guilty to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.
It was placed on probation for a period of four years.
Ordered to implement a comprehensive Environmental Compliance Plan as a special condition of probation.
The company was sentenced for oil bilge discharge into the sea and for concealment of evidence.

According to an article published in the United States Department of Justice, a...