By the way, according to BIMCO.org, a shipping company was sentenced to USD 700,000 penalty and five years’ probation for intentional cover-up of oil pollution. Here are more details :
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According to a news release from the United States Department of Justice, a Liberian shipping company based in Puerto Rico was sentenced in US federal court yesterday for violations of the US Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and making false statements to US Coast Guard inspectors in a case of intentional cover-up of oil pollution.
Violations included use of the emergency bilge discharge system to dump the vessel’s oily waste directly overboard, without first processing it through the vessel’s pollution prevention equipment as required. In addition, none of the overboard discharges of oil or oily bilge wastewater were recorded in the vessel’s oil record book, as also required. As a result of these violations, the company was sentenced to pay a USD 700,000 criminal penalty and was placed on five years of supervised probation. During the period of probation, the company will have to implement a comprehensive environmental compliance plan to continuously monitor and evaluate pollution prevention from any vessel it owns or operates.
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BIMCO suggests guidances on visiting US ports and on US port State control inspections in their updated Guide to Port State Control Inspections.
And also, BIMCO's Guide has also been produced in cooperation with the US Chamber of Shipping regarding the US Vessel General Permit (VGP). The purpose of it is to provide guidelines for the crew to avoid any problems in relation to the VPG when calling at US ports.
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