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Manager, owner and chief engineer charged for failure to keep oil records

A US jury charged a Greek ship management company, the ship owner, and the Chief Engineer of the Nigerian-flagged oil tanker ‘M/T Evridiki’ for failing to keep accurate pollution control records, falsifying records, and obstruction of justice, the US Department of Justice announced.

Namely, a federal grand jury in Wilmington, Delaware, returned a four-count indictment on 16 May charging Evridiki Navigation Inc., Liquimar Tankers Management Services Inc., and Nikolaos Vastardis,...

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Tanker operator fined with USD 2 mn for dumping oily waste

Vessel operator Interorient Marine Services was convicted and sentenced in Louisiana for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil from a tanker. Senior ship officers employed by the company aboard the Ridgebury Alexandra Z discharged oily waste into the ocean by flushing the vessel’s pollution prevention equipment sensor with fresh water.

The flushing of the sensor tricked the system into detecting a lower effluent oil content, in comparison to the portion that...

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