Shipping Companies Penalized for Concealing Oil Discharge
Two corporations that operated the Panama-flagged motor tanker P/S Dream— Prive Overseas Marine LLC and Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret — have been ordered to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete four years of probation. The companies pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS).
The court in September sentenced the P/S Dream’s captain, Abdurrahman Korkmaz, to eight months in prison for an APPS offense and obstructing the U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation.
The charges pertain to the investigation of the P/S Dream when it was heading to New Orleans in January 2023. Senior corporate managers were aware that Korkmaz had arranged to discharge oil-contaminated waste from a residual tank on deck into the ocean.
The defendants falsified the vessel’s oil record book by omitting the discharge.
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