运营油轮P/S Dream的Private Overseas Marine LLC和Private Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret在新奥尔良联邦法院被判处200万美元的刑事罚款和4年的缓刑。

两方都在5月承认了几项指控，包括共谋、妨碍司法公正和违反《防止船舶污染法》（APPS）。

油轮P/S Dream的船长Abdurrahman Korkmaz因违反APPS罪和妨碍美国海岸警卫队调查被判处8个月监禁。

这是关于2023年1月P/S Dream驶往新奥尔良时的调查。

据报道，公司的高级经理们知道船长要把甲板上的一个水箱里被石油污染的水排放到海洋里。

船长告诉船员将废油排入海中，并用肥皂清洗水箱。他们在 3 天内用便携式泵将内容物排入海中，被告在船舶油记录簿中省略了排放。

一名船员向海岸警卫队讲述了这件事，并分享了排放和浮油的视频。

当这艘船到达路易斯安那州时，另一名船员向海岸警卫队提供了一名高级船员讨论卸货计划的录音。

在海岸警卫队检查期间，出示了伪造的日志，以掩盖被油污染的废物被倾倒到船外的行为，这违反了MARPOL附则I，这是一项管理船舶油污的国际条约。

船长已通知Prive Shipping的高管，受石油污染的废物被倾倒到船外。

200万美元的罚款包括50万美元的组织社区服务费，将用于资助路易斯安那州东部地区的海洋环境项目，该项目由国家鱼类和野生动物基金会管理。

Korkmaz船长来自土耳其，而private Overseas Marine在迪拜，private Shipping在土耳其。另一个缓刑条件是，这些公司必须遵守环境合规计划，该计划要求在今后 4 年内进行审计、安全和检查要求。

▲图源：网络，侵权必删

英文原文

Prive Overseas Marine LLC and Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret which operated tanker P/S Dream were sentenced in a New Orleans Federal Court to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete 4 years of probation.



Both had pleaded guilty in May to several charges including conspiracy, obstructing justice and violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS).



Captain of motor tanker P/S Dream, Abdurrahman Korkmaz, has been sentenced to 8 months in prison for APPS offence and obstruction of U.S Coast Guard Investigation.



This is about the investigation of the P/S Dream when it was sailing to New Orleans in January 2023.



Per reports, the senior corporate managers knew that the Captain was going to discharge the oil-contaminated water from a tank on the deck into the ocean.



The captain told the crew members to pump the waste overboard and to clean the tank with soap.  They rigged a portable pump to empty the contents overboard in 3 days and the defendants omitted the discharge in the ship’s oil record book.



A crew member told the Coast Guard about it and shared videos of the discharge and the oil sheen.



When the ship reached Louisiana, another crew member gave the Coast Guard a recording of an officer discussing the plan of discharge.



During Coast Guard inspection, falsified logs were presented to conceal that oil-contaminated waste was dumped overboard in violation of MARPOL Annex I, an international treaty that regulates oil pollution from ships.



The shipmaster had informed officials at Prive Shipping that the oil-contaminated waste was dumped overboard.



The $ 2 million penalty includes $500,000 in organisational community service payments that will be used for funding maritime environmental projects in the eastern district of Louisiana, managed by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.



Captain Korkmaz is from Turkey while Prive Overseas Marine is in Dubai and Prive Shipping is in Turkey.  Another probation condition is that the corporations must adhere to an environmental compliance plan which mandates audit, safety and inspection requirements over the next 4 years.

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