The US Department of Justice reports that two related companies that operated the motor tanker PS Dream – Prive Overseas Marine and Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret – have pleaded guilty to conspiracy, knowingly violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), and obstruction of justice...
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US Federal Maritime Commission launches investigation into impact of Canadian ballast water treatment regulations
The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has launched an investigation to determine if pending Canadian regulations governing ballast water management systems of ships in the US-Canada Great Lakes trade have a disparate effect on US-flagged vessels and constitute a Foreign Shipping Practices violation under 46 USC Chapter 423. US-based companies operating ships in the US-Canada […]
Russian Navy’s newest salvage and rescue tug floated out
Russian shipbuilder Astrakhan Ship Repair Plant, a division of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, recently launched a new tug ordered by the Russian Ministry of Defence. The future Mikhail Chekov is the seventh vessel under the Project 22870 series of tugs slated for the Russian Navy. The...
COLUMN | What could possibly go wrong? Local content in Nigeria, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Qatar [Offshore Accounts]
“They come over here, taking our jobs and stealing our women,” is a familiar refrain against foreigners all around the world, as likely to be uttered from Dublin to Durban, from Dusseldorf to Des Moines, and from Denpasar to Dubai (well, probably not the second part in the UAE, but we won’t dwell...
Oil tanker crew plead guilty to pollution charges in New Jersey
Two ship engineers on a foreign-registered commercial oil tanker have pleaded guilty to charges related to the concealment of pollution by falsifying records, with the chief engineer also pleading guilty to charges related to the discharge of oily waste into the sea from a commercial vessel near a...
Daily Infographic: The Vessel Incidental Discharge Act: Phase 1
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Chief Engineer Indicted in Cover Up of Dumping Pollutants
The management, owner and the Chief Engineer of the cargo vessel Nederland Reefer have been indicted for falsification of pollution records, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, reports Delaware Business Now.
What are the charges indicted?A federal grand jury in Wilmington returned a six-count indictment charging Chartworld Shipping Corporation, Nederland Shipping Corporation, and Chief Engineer Vasileios Mazarakis for
- failing to keep accurate pollution control records,
- falsifying...
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