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Korea's Doorae Shipping is fined US$950,000 for dumping oily bilge
SOUTH Korean shipping company, Doorae Shipping, has been fined US$950,000 in US District Court in Hawaii, after pleading guilty for its tanker's failure to maintain an accurate oil record book.
This was in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, and for making false statements to the US Coast Guard about dumping oil contaminated bilge water.
According to information provided in court, instead of running bilge water through an oil water separator, the chief engineer of 5,702-dwt chemical product tanker B Sky discharged 500 gallons of oily bilge water into the sea, and failed to note it in the record book.
Judge Leslie Kobayashi sentenced Doorae Shipping to a two-year probation and ordered it to pay a fine of $750,000, plus make a community service payment of $200,000 that is to be donated to the National Fish and Wildlife Service Foundation to fund projects that preserve and enhance coral reefs around Hawaii, reported London's Tanker Operator.
This was in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, and for making false statements to the US Coast Guard about dumping oil contaminated bilge water.
According to information provided in court, instead of running bilge water through an oil water separator, the chief engineer of 5,702-dwt chemical product tanker B Sky discharged 500 gallons of oily bilge water into the sea, and failed to note it in the record book.
Judge Leslie Kobayashi sentenced Doorae Shipping to a two-year probation and ordered it to pay a fine of $750,000, plus make a community service payment of $200,000 that is to be donated to the National Fish and Wildlife Service Foundation to fund projects that preserve and enhance coral reefs around Hawaii, reported London's Tanker Operator.
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