Tag: fines

The US Department of Justice announced a fine of $ 1.5 million for Greek ship owner and operator who were found guilty in June 2016 for discharging oily water from vessel Gallia Graeca on its voyage from China to Seattle and providing USCG inspectors with false log books

The owners of a 69-foot wooden vessel that sank at its dock and spilled oil into Sinclair Inlet face a $47,500 penalty from the Washington Department of Ecology over the incident.

The West of England P&I Club informs that the practice of ecological inspectors attempting to get on board vessels is still ongoing at ports in the Ukraine. Ecological inspectors in Ukraine are no longer included in the list of official personnel required to board vessels in order to issue inward clearance.

The Swedish P&I Club has highlighted the increase of supernumeraries arriving to Argentina without holding the necessary VISA when required. In such case, the carriers are subject to a fine imposed by the Migration Authorities.

The US Environmental Protection Agency said that Global Partners has violated federal air pollution standards and under-reported the amount of ozone-producing compounds being emitted when it sought permission to handle more oil trains at the Port of Albany.

The US Department of Justice announced that a Doorae Shipping Co., LTD, a South Korean maritime operations company has been fined to pay a fine of $275,000 for the failure to maintain an accurate oil record book, in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.

BP has announced that following significant progress in resolving outstanding claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill, it can now reliably estimate all of its remaining material liabilities in connection with the incident.

WWL has agreed to pay a $98.9 million fine for its involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices of international ocean shipments of roll-on, roll-off cargo to and from the Port of Baltimore and other locations in the US.

Owners of the German company and operator of the M/V Cornelia required to pay $1 million criminal sanction for violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) by failing to maintain an accurate ship record about the disposal of oil-contaminated waste. $200,000 earmarked for protection of Lake Superior and Lake Superior Watershed.

The Japan P&I Club has obtained additional information of the customs fine in Nikolaev port from their correspondents in Ukraine. Huge fines are imposed by the Customs officers in Nikolaev for failure to declare the ship’s stores and any goods on board.