4 Shipping Corporations to Pay $1M for Illegal Discharge of Oily Waste
On July 28, 2011, the Justice Department announced that four corporations have been sentenced to pay a $1 million penalty and banned from doing business in the U.S. for the next five years due to illegally dumping sludge and oily…
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waste overboard in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, Ports, and the Ships, Ports, and Waterways Safety Act. The four corporations were Stanships Inc. (Marshall Islands), a repeat offender, Stanships Inc. (New York), Standard Shipping Inc. and Calmore Maritime Ltd., collectively the owners and operator of the M/V Americana, a Panamanian registered cargo vessel.