Bulker operator fined $1.5 million in pollution case
Japan’s Misuga Kaiun Co. Ltd. has been fined $1.5 million after pleading guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by failing to accurately maintain an oil record book and
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Reefer owner, manager to pay $1.8 million in pollution plea deal
Two Athens, Greece, based companies are to pay a $1.8 million criminal penalty under a plea agreement in relation to various charges involving the 13,049 gt, 1991-built, Bahamas-flagged refrigerated cargo containership Nederland
Japanese shipping company fined $1 million in pollution case
MAY 10, 2018 — Nitta Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (Nitta), a Japanese shipping company that delivered steel products to Wilmington, NC, was today convicted and sentenced for obstruction of justice and falsification of
Tanker operator, master cop plea in pollution case
FEBRUARY 26, 2018 — Athens, Greece, headquartered Sea World Management & Trading, Inc. and Edmon Fajardo were convicted today for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil and
Oil and garbage offenses off American Samoa bring $2.5 million penalty
AUGUST 30, 2017 — Yuh Fa Fishery (Vanuatu) Co. Ltd., a fishing company operating in and around American Samoa was convicted and sentenced today for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to
MST charged with Oil Record Book violations
AUGUST 23, 2017 — A federal grand jury in Portland, Maine, returned a nine-count indictment yesterday charging the manager and owner of a 2016-built Liberian flagged bulker with offenses related to the vessel’s Oil
Guilty plea in “magic pipe” case
OCTOBER 26, 2016 — Two German shipping companies that owned and operated the M/V Nils B, pleaded guilty today to an environmental crime in federal court in San Diego before the Honorable
Doorae Shipping fined again after further pollution offense
AUGUST 18, 2016 — South Korea’s Doorae Shipping has done it again. Back in April, the company was sentenced to pay a fine of $750,000 and a community service payment of $200,000
Aegean, three officers, indicted in pollution case
JULY 15, 2016 —A federal grand jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned an indictment today charging Aegean Shipping Management S.A. and Aegeansun Gamma Inc. [both of which are units of the Piraeus,
Cornelia operator cops plea, will pay $1 million
JULY 6, 2016 — Schnaittenbach, Germany, headquartered Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition und Transport GmbH (MST), operator of the M/V Cornelia, will pay penalties totaling $1 million after yesterday pleaded guilty in U.S. District