Ontario, Canada-based Algoma Central Corporation has been fined $500,000 after pleading guilty to dumping wastewater into Lake Ontario, the U.S. Justice Department announced this week. Algoma operated a fleet of…
Illegal dumping
Bulk Carrier Busted for Dumping Garbage at Great Barrier Reef
Australia has fined the chief officer and operator of a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier for dumping garbage into the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. An investigation by Australian Maritime Safety Authority…
NGO Shipbreaking Platform Names the Worst Ocean Dumpers
- Close to 470 large tankers, bulkers, cargo and passenger ships were scrapped in primitive, substandard conditions on beaches in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan in 2019.
- The Shipbreaking Platform logged accidents that killed 24 workers on the beach at Chattogram, Bangladesh, making 2019 ‘the worst year for Bangladeshi yards.
- Ship owners of the United Arab Emirates were responsible for the highest number of ships sold to breaking yards in south Asia in 2019.
- Costamare, CMA CGM, Diamond Offshore,...
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