Two shipping companies have been found guilty by a U.S Court of illegally discharging oily water into the open ocean, logging in fake readings, and tampering with onboard equipment to get away with the crime.
MSC Shipmanagement LTD and Hong Kong Spirit Shipping and Trading LTD accepted the charges and pleaded guilty, after which they were fined a total of $1.75 million. The incident happened on board the ship MSC Samira III, which is owned by the latter.
The firms violated the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships from 2024 to 2025 by using various methods, in which the crew members were equally involved.
The crew of the engine department of the ship ordered the junior crew to deploy hoses and portable pumps for transferring oily bilge water into a tank containing sewage.
The untreated water was then released into the ocean without passing it through the oily-water separator, which is mandatory to make sure that the
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