September 5, 2019

Italian shipping company d’Amico Shipping Italia S.p.A. will pay $4 million following a guilty plea on charges that violated the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships by deliberately concealing that crew on its oil tanker the M/T Cielo di Milano intentionally bypassed pollution prevention equipment and discharged bilge water and oily waste from the vessel’s engine room through its sewage system into the sea while the ship was in U.S. waters.  The defendant falsified the vessel’s Oil Record Book, made false statements to the Coast Guard during inspection, and destroyed the vessel’s sounding log.  USAO NJ

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