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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.

Empire Bulkers Limited and Joanna Maritime Limited pleaded guilty to knowing violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and the Ports and Waterways Safety Act related to the Motor Vessel Joanna.  

Liquimar Tankers Management Services and Evridiki Navigation were sentenced after being convicted at trial on all charges, including violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, falsifying ships’ documents, obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard inspection and making false statements to U.S. Coast Guard inspectors. 

A crewmember of the MSC Ravenna has pleaded guilty to stabbing and killing a crewmate while under way in the Pacific in 2020.

A federal grand jury accused three companies with illegally discharging oil during a pipeline break in early October.

American Commercial Barge Line (ACBL) has been cleared of any fault related to the 2008 M/V Mel Oliver collision and resulting oil spill on the Mississippi River.

A Cyprus-based company that operates several commercial vessels, was fined $2M for concealing illegal discharges of oily water into the Atlantic Ocean.

A federal appeals court reversed course and let stand a lower court order banning the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from enforcing COVID-19 cruise ship rules in Florida.