Tag: US Court

The Japanese shipping company Nitta Kisen Kaisha Ltd., owning and operating the bulk carrier 'Atlantic Oasis', that delivered steel products to Wilmington, was convicted and sentenced by the US court for obstruction of justice and falsification of an Oil Record Book to cover-up intentional oil pollution from the ship.

Lieutenant junior grade Sarah B. Coppock pleaded guilty on a single criminal charge for her role in the collision between USS Fitzgerald and 'ACX Crystal' off Japan in June 2017, that claimed the lives of seven US navy sailors. She was sentenced to three months reduced pay and was issued a punitive reprimand.

Two US fishing companies and two individuals have agreed to pay a total of $414,000 in civil penalties and to perform fleet-wide improvements to resolve federal Clean Water Act claims stemming from oily bilge discharges from the fishing vessel 'Challenge', and a related fuel oil discharge in August 2017 in New Bedford.

On 29 March, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided an important oil spill cost recovery case, involving the tanker Athos, owned by Frescati Shipping Company, back in November 2004. The single-hulled oil tanker ‘Athos I’ spilled approximately 265,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River.

The US Federal Trade Commission informed that it will take the Norwegian company Wilhelmsen in court, regarding the company's plan to buy the US Drew Marine Group. According to FTC this deal will put marine water treatment chemicals market competition in danger.

Fitzgerald will spend several days in the Port of Pascagoula as the heavy lift ship will commence the reverse operation of unfastening, lowering, and guiding the ship off the platform. The ship will then be taken to Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard.  

After the US Navy decided to proceed with criminal charges against the commanders of the two US warships, that were involved in fatal collisions with merchant ships in 2017, a court-martial of a ship's captain is possible, something that has not happened in many years.

The commanders of the two US warships, that were involved in fatal collisions with merchant ships in 2017, will face military criminal charges related to dereliction of duty, hazarding a vessel and negligent homicide. The two incidents occurred within almost two months and resulted in death of 17 sailors in total.

International Container Terminal Services expressed satisfaction over the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously affirming two National Labor Relations Board decisions that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is guilty of violating federal labor laws. 

Aiming to optimize its capital structure pending recovery in the floating rig drilling industry, Luxemburg-based offshore operator Pacific Drilling announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.