Ship Operator Sentenced to Pay More Than $2 Million Fine for Concealing Pollution on the High Seas
Ship Operator Sentenced to Pay More Than $2 Million Fine for Concealing Pollution on the High Seas
Consultores de Navegacion, a Spanish company that operates the M/T Nautilus, an ocean-going chemical tanker ship, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to pay a fine of more than $2 million and serve three years of probation for criminal violations related to the overboard discharge of oil-contaminated bilge waste on the high seas.