Tag: fines

US Department of Justice announced that Princess Cruise Lines was sentenced to pay a $40 million penalty – the largest-ever for crimes involving deliberate vessel pollution – related to illegal dumping overboard of oil contaminated waste and falsification of official logs, in order to conceal the discharges, in Miami, Florida.

The US Department of justice announced that a company whose focus is exploration and production of natural gas and oil in Cook Inlet, Alaska, has agreed to pay $10 million to satisfy a civil penalty originally assessed against it by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for violating the Jones Act.

The US Department of Justice announced that the federal court in Washington sentenced East West Seafoods company to pay $50,000 in fines, for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, the Clean Water Act and the Refuse Act, by intentionally discharging oily bilge water into the ocean off Alaska, and then presenting false records to the USCG.

Japan P&I notes a recent increase of customs fines for Masters who are not declaring cash on board at Bejaia, Algeria. The Club recommends that Masters inform their local agents and declare any cash on board to the customs. The declaration will be handed to customs authorities in their presence.

MPA Singapore brought charges against New Ocean Maritime Pte Ltd for providing services in the port without a bunker craft operator licence between 3 January 2015 and 28 March 2015.

The US Department of Justice has announced that throughout 2016 it imposed criminal penalties to the amount of more than $363 million to shipping companies and crew for the intentional discharges of pollutants from ocean-going vessels in US waters.

Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection has fined the Port of Haifa 2.2 million shekels ($570,000) for violating air pollution regulations.

In Turkish waters, environmental protection is developing and significant fines are applicable to vessels that violate Turkish anti-pollution regulations in accordance with the Turkish Environmental Code. The Metropole Maritime & Trading Ltd. Co. issued recommendations on the foresaid updated fines.

A Coast Guard Hearing Officer assessed a $9,500 civil penalty, to a Washington resident for interfering with the safe operation of the Washington State Ferry (WSF) Tokitae by shining a high-powered blue laser.

The US Department of Justice has announced that a senior engineering officer employed by an Italian shipping company has been sentenced to eight months in prison for deliberately concealing a vessel’s discharge of oily waste into the sea.