Italy-based shipping company d’Amico Shipping will pay a $4 million fine and serve probation in the United States after admitting to investigators that one of its ships discharged oily waste and other pollutants into the sea and they then tried to cover it up. The company pleaded guilty on...
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Satellite Images Detect “Magic Pipe” With Vessel Info
Environmental monitoring group SkyTruth has exposed how common it is for ships to pump their waste oil out in Indonesian waters, says an article published in Eco Business.
What happened?Two ships have been spotted allegedly dumping waste oil in the sea off the eastern coast of Sumatra.
Activists say is poor enforcement against marine pollution violations in Indonesia.
The involved vesselsOne of the vessels has been identified in a report by the environmental monitoring group SkyTruth as the...
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Tank Vessel Operator to Pay $2 Million Fine for Illegal Discharges, Vessel Captain Indicted
Vessel operator Interorient Marine Services was convicted and sentenced to pay a $2 million fine and probation Wednesday in the Western District of Louisiana for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil from the tank vessel Ridgebury Alexandra Z, the U.S. Justice...
Greek Shipping Company Fined $2 Million for Illegal Discharges Caught on Camera
Greek shipping company Navimax Corporation has been sentenced to pay a $2,000,000 fine by a federal district court in the United States for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and obstructing a Coast Guard investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Navimax is...
German bulk carrier company fined $3.2 million for ‘magic pipe’ oil discharges
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...
Repeat Offender MST to Pay $3.2. Million Criminal Fine in U.S. ‘Magic Pipe’ Pollution Case
German shipping company MST Mineralien Schiffahrt (MST) will pay a $3.2 million fine after pleading guilty to obstructing justice and falsifying oil record books in order to conceal pollution from one of its ships calling in Portland, Maine, the U.S. Justice Department has announced. MST pleaded...