Pollution – 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…

$2 million fine levied for oil dumping; captain faces prison

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

(NEW ORLEANS) — Two corporations that operated the motor tanker PS Dream — Prive Overseas Marine LLC and Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret — were sentenced Thursday in federal court to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete four years of probation for concealing an oil discharge from the ship. The companies pleaded guilty in May to charges of conspiracy,…

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…