MARPOL – Professional Mariner

28 Aug

Tanker manager fined $2 million for gulf oil dumping

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsMARPOL, Pollution, shipping, U.S. Coast Guard

(WASHINGTON) — V.Ships Norway A.S. pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) and was sentenced to pay a $2 million fine. V.Ships admitted that oily bilge water and oily waste was discharged from the tanker Swift Winchester and the discharges were omitted from the oil record book. “Dumping oil-contaminated waste into the waters around…

Mexican ship manager fined $1.75M for concealing discharges

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsMARPOL, Regulation, U.S. Coast Guard

(WASHINGTON) — Gremex Shipping S.A. de C.V., a Mexican corporation that managed several ships including the bulk carrier Suhar, pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wednesday for creating and providing false records to the U.S. Coast Guard to conceal the illegal discharge of oily bilge waste into the ocean, which is a felony violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from…

Two engineers guilty of discharging oily waste off N.J.

Professional Mariner StaffMaritime NewsMARPOL, Pollution

(NEWARK, N.J.) — A chief engineer employed by a Greek shipping company admitted charges Tuesday related to the discharge of oily waste into the sea from a commercial vessel near a petroleum terminal in Sewaren, N.J. The man and a second engineer also admitted concealment of pollution from that vessel through the falsification of records. Konstantinos Atsalis, 57, the chief…