A TURKISH shipping company and its United Arab Emirates-based partner were sentenced and fined US$2 million by the United States after a ship's captain ordered his crew to dump polluted waste overboard into the ocean and tried to cover it up, said the us Justice Department, reported United Press International.
Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret and its Dubai-based Prive Overseas Marine LLC were fined $2 million and sentenced to a four-year probation by a New Orleans court as the operators of the shipping tanker 'P/S Dream,' according to the DOJ.
That ship's captain, Abdurrahman Korkmaz, was given an eight month prison sentence on September 10 for obstruction of a US Coast Guard investigation and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.
As a condition of probation, the two aligned international shipping corporations must adhere to an environmental compliance plan and face safety and inspection requirements over the next four years.
The legal charges were related to a previous investigation about the January 2023 incident. DOJ says the Dream was traveling to New Orleans when Korkmaz ordered the crew to discharge oil-contaminated waste from a residual tank on deck into the Atlantic Ocean.
The seamen rigged a portable pump to empty the contents overboard over a three day timespan. The captain then told his crew to clean the tank with soap, Justice officials said.
The defendants then falsified the vessel's oil record book by omitting the discharge.
According to the federal government, senior corporate managers were aware that Korkmaz, a Turkish national, had arranged the scheme and multiple crew members came forward to alert authorities about what took place.
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Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret and its Dubai-based Prive Overseas Marine LLC were fined $2 million and sentenced to a four-year probation by a New Orleans court as the operators of the shipping tanker 'P/S Dream,' according to the DOJ.
That ship's captain, Abdurrahman Korkmaz, was given an eight month prison sentence on September 10 for obstruction of a US Coast Guard investigation and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.
As a condition of probation, the two aligned international shipping corporations must adhere to an environmental compliance plan and face safety and inspection requirements over the next four years.
The legal charges were related to a previous investigation about the January 2023 incident. DOJ says the Dream was traveling to New Orleans when Korkmaz ordered the crew to discharge oil-contaminated waste from a residual tank on deck into the Atlantic Ocean.
The seamen rigged a portable pump to empty the contents overboard over a three day timespan. The captain then told his crew to clean the tank with soap, Justice officials said.
The defendants then falsified the vessel's oil record book by omitting the discharge.
According to the federal government, senior corporate managers were aware that Korkmaz, a Turkish national, had arranged the scheme and multiple crew members came forward to alert authorities about what took place.
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