Tag: fines

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has settled with two shipping companies over claims of violations of EPA’s Vessel General Permit issued under the Clean Water Act.

UK-based Group P&I Club NorthStandard has warned members that Northern European ports have been imposing an increasing number of fines on vessels carrying grain on the grounds that they have breached fumigation rules.

Nigeria has launched a tax probe into international petroleum shipping firms (IPSCs) that did business in Nigeria between 2010 and 2019. 

According to documents provided by the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California, Denys Korotkiy, chief engineer was convicted by a federal jury in Southern California of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, and failure to maintain an accurate oil record book for the vessel.

UKP&I correspondents in Argentina provide an update on shortages and customs fines relating to Soya Bean imports, after a historically dry season in the country.

According to US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), ONE and Wan Hai Lines have paid a combined total of $2.65 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations of misconduct.

Greece’s Zeus Lines Management has been fined and agreed to pay $2.25m for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oily bilge and for failing to report a hazardous condition on board the oil tanker Galissas.

On 20 March, a Sydney commercial vessel master was fined $5,000 by AMSA, for breaching a condition on a vessel’s certificate of operation.

Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines to pay $950,000 in civil penalties as well as refunds of charges in a detention and demurrage case by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in Washington DC., which dates back to 2021.

Six groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court charging the Interior Department, multiple agencies, and agency officials with violating an array of laws when authorizing ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.