Tag: fines

Gremex Shipping pleaded guilty and was sentenced for falsifying records to the USCG regarding illegal discharge of oily bilge waste.

According to reports, the bulker captain that discharged around a million litres of wash water in the waters of Fos-sur-Mer, was fined.

According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), two shipping companies were sentenced to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete four years of probation for illegally discharging oil into the ocean.

The Ministry of Industries (MoI) has fined SN Corporation Shipbreaking Yard and ordered a three-month suspension of operations following a fatal explosion on September 7 that resulted in six deaths and injuries to six others.

A container ship, Wec Frans Hals, experienced difficulties during a docking maneuver at the Port of La Luz and Las Palmas in Gran Canaria on August 20th, due to the captain's intoxication. 

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating two individuals and five entities that have facilitated weapons procurement for Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the Houthis.

American Club highlights that the Sierra Leone Ports and Harbors Authority has implemented new regulations concerning the disembarkation of stowaways from vessels deviating from planned voyages.

Following a raid on Altera’s office four years ago, the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) issued a fine of NOK 8 million (approx. EUR 700,000) on 10 June to Norwegian shipping company Altera Infrastructure for having sold two vessels for scrapping India.

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning ten individuals, entities, and vessels across multiple jurisdictions for engaging in the illicit transport of oil and other commodities, including for Houthi financial facilitator Sa’id al-Jamal.

The Federal Maritime Commission has entered into compromise agreements with three different companies resulting in the collection of more than $2.3 million in civil penalty payments, and commitments by each company to reform specific business practices.