Tag: US Court

According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), two shipping companies were sentenced to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete four years of probation for illegally discharging oil into the ocean.

Maersk Line has agreed to change its safety reporting policies and pay a former employee after firing them for reporting safety issues to the U.S. Coast Guard without first telling the company.

Maersk Line Limited was found by OSHA to have illegally fired a whistleblower, and was ordered to reinstate the seaman and pay $457,759 in back wages, interest, compensatory damages, and $250,000 in punitive damages.

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBB) is suing Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) for $31.7 million dollars, claiming the carriers willfully abandoned service in order to earn massive profits.

A Filipino seafarer who stabbed a killed another crew onboard the MSC Ravenna containership, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.

Ionian Management (IONIAN M) was sentenced on November 1, in the District of the Virgin Islands before U.S. District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis in St. Croix, after pleading guilty to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. IONIAN M was sentenced to pay a fine of $250,000 and placed on probation for one year.

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) won a four-week jury trial, as on October 20, a jury convened in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida awarded NCL $159 million in its lawsuit against ABB, and ABB OY, claiming fraudulent and negligent misrepresentations and omissions ABB made about its propulsion systems (Azipods) that are used aboard many of NCL's cruise ships.

On August 11, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 7 defendants with running a criminal enterprise dedicated to extorting and misleading shipping companies into paying fees for the loading and unloading of cargo at the Port of San Juan.

A US judge said the owner of an oil tanker must pay the US $44.6 million for its role in a 2017 collision between the tanker with a US Navy destroyer in southeast Asia that killed 10 sailors and injured dozens.

Glencore International A.G. (Glencore) and Glencore Ltd., each pleaded guilty and agreed to pay over $1.1 billion to resolve the government’s investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and a commodity price manipulation scheme.