La empresa naviera griega Navimax Corporation ha sido multada por USD$ 2,000,000 por un tribunal federal de distrito en los Estados Unidos por violaciones al Convenio MARPOL y obstrucción de la investigación de la Guardia Costera, anunció el Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos.
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Environmental compliance has always been under review and close monitoring in shipping, thus the industry has introduced numerous of regulations aiming to reduce pollution globally and in specific areas (ECAs, US ports, EU ports, Arctic zones, MARPOL Special Areas etc.). But what happens when economic cost is an obstacle to organizations’ ecological decisions?
There is no doubt that an organisation’s attitude is linked inevitably with additional costs. Antifouling paints means an extra cost for...
https://safety4sea.com/cm-environmental-compliance-challenges-psc/
The northern Bering Sea and Bering Strait region has been an ecological, cultural, and economic center for Yup’ik, Cup’ik, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, and Inupiaq peoples for centuries. Yet, recently, a combination of factors, including less sea ice and more trade and resource development, has resulted to an increased vessel traffic in the region led by huge cargo vessels, tugs, and research vessels, and is expected to continue growing.
Most of these vessels provide information on people, science...
https://safety4sea.com/northern-bering-sea-and-bering-strait-threatened-by-increasing-ship-waste/
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...
A German shipping company, MST Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition und Transport GmbH (MST), pleaded guilty and was sentenced in Portland, Maine, for obstruction of justice and for maintaining false official records to conceal deliberate pollution from one of its ships, the M/V Marguerita, announced Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey B. Clark for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank for the District of Maine.
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The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78) Annex II, Regulation 16 requires the Government of each member within the convention to have surveyors for exercising control procedures as developed by the IMO.
Namely, according to the UK Government a MARPOL Surveyor will only be able to attend if a ship owner or his agent requires it. The duties of a MARPOL Surveyor are briefly:
https://safety4sea.com/uk-released-guidance-on-marpol-surveyors/
IMO has adopted an action plan to reduce marine plastic litter from ships.
El comité para la protección del medio ambiente marino MEPC 73 de la OMI ha adoptado la enmienda del la convención MARPOL donde prohiben transporte de combustible pesado para propulsión conforme a la regla Azufre 2020 a bordo de los buques. Ver artículo explicatorio de la medida Azufre 2020 de la...
https://fullavantenews.com/omi-mepc73-prohiben-transporte-combustible-pesado-propulsion/?lang=es
MARPOL allows unprocessed food waste to be discharged into the sea from vessels proceeding at a distance not less than 12 nautical miles from the nearest land. However, according to Gard not all coastal states define their ‘nearest land boundary’ in the same way.
According to Gard, a vessel was detained in Australian for illegally discharging food waste into Australian waters. The alleged incident took place when the vessel was 13 nautical miles (nm) from shore.
In addition, before this incident,...
https://safety4sea.com/gard-complying-with-food-waste-discharge-regulations/
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