Tag: oil spill

On 3rd January 2017, the MPA was notified of a collision between Singapore-registered container vessel WAN HAI 301 and a Gibraltar-registered container vessel APL DENVER off Pasir Gudang Port, Johor Malaysia.

Time has come for most shipowners to apply for renewal of their CLC, Bunker, Athens and Wreck Removal Certificates. Certificates must be renewed when the underlying insurance expires, reminds the Danish Maritime Authority.

The US Department of Justice has announces that two Philippine engineers are to serve jail time for obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard inspection that took place in July 2015 aboard the cargo ship Ocean Hope at the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Craig Carter, Thordon Bearings’ Director of Marketing and Customer Service, addressed World Ocean Council members on the need to prevent 244 million litres of operational oil from leaking into oceans each year.

Princess Cruise Lines has agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges stemming from its deliberate pollution of the seas and intentional acts to cover it up. The company will pay a $40 million penalty and plead guilty to charges related to illegal dumping of oil contaminated waste from the Caribbean Princess cruise ship.

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.

The Shipowners P&I Club has been notified of several incidents whereby standard procedures were not adhered to whilst loading, causing cargo tanks to overflow and leading to pollution. The Club recommends to operators some steps that should be included within their on board management systems and taken into account prior to the commencement of loading oil.

An American tuna fishing company that regularly unloaded its catch in American Samoa, was convicted and sentenced for discharging oil into the South Pacific and for maintaining false records, according to US Department of Justice.

Two German shipping companies that owned and operated the Motor Vessel (M/V) Nils B, pleaded guilty to an environmental crime for failing to accurately maintain an oil record book. The firms failed to disclose that oil contaminated water had been discharged into the ocean from the vessel without the use of pollution prevention equipment.

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.