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Adani says contaminated water from its Abbot Point coal terminal in north Queensland was caught by a protective barrier and not released into nearby water.

The American P&I Club issued an alert, informing that the Maritime Safety Administrations (MSAs) in Hebei Province and Tianjin Municipality have both reportedly penalized a foreign ship for use of fuel with sulfur content over 0.5%. It is not clear at this stage how the vessel was penalized.

The West of England P&I Club reminds now that USCG has approved three BWM systems, ships must comply with the US Ballast Water Discharge Regulation. Operators are advised to ensure that each vessel, which calls a port under U.S. jurisdiction, either complies with one of the approved BW management methods or is covered by an extended compliance date, with a copy of the letter kept aboard the vessel.

US Department of Justice announced that a federal jury in Charleston, South Carolina, convicted two chief engineers of the vessel, T/V Green Sky, of falsifying documents in order to conceal illegal discharges of oily bilge waste and obstruction charges.

The U.S. Coast Guard has initiated civil penalty proceedings against the operator, Vega Reederei GmbH & Co. KG, following investigation into ballast water discharge where violations by the bulk carrier Vega Mars found with a maximum penalty for $38,175. USCG investigators found that around Jan. 29, 2017, while moored in Tacoma, ballast water was discharged from the bulk carrier without the use of a Coast Guard approved ballast water management system or other approved means which is a violation of the National Invasive Species Act .

Customs control measures undertaken by the Baltic Customs have uncovered a scheme used to take marine bunker fuel stated as stores outside the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union without payment of customs dues. Specifically, 12,000 tonnes of fuel was illegally exported outside the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) announced that it has reached a compromise agreement with Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS (WWL) and Eukor Car Carriers, Inc., collecting a combined $1.5 million in civil penalties. The agreement resolved allegations that the companies violated the Shipping Act for price fixing

The US Federal Maritime Commission announced that it has completed compromise agreements recovering a total of $338,000 in civil penalties. The agreements were reached with one vessel-operating common carrier and six ocean transportation intermediaries

The US Department of Justice and the Coast Guard have announced that Kirby Inland Marine L.P. has agreed to pay $4.9 million in Clean Water Act civil penalties and to implement fleet-wide operational improvements to settle claims stemming from a 4,000-barrel oil spill in the Houston Ship Channel in March 2014.

The Standard P&I club has been advised that there are still a number of cases in Brazil where ships and/or crew have been fined due to crew overstaying in the country. Fines are more frequent at the port of Rio de Janeiro where immigration controls are more stringent.