New Trade Ship Management S.A. (New Trade), a vessel operating company, and vessel Chief Engineer Dennis Plasabas pleaded guilty in San Diego, California, for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oily bilge water from the bulk carrier vessel Longshore.
New Trade and Plasabas admitted that oily bilge water was illegally dumped directly into the ocean from the Longshore without being processed adequately through required pollution prevention equipment. Oily bilge...