Over objections from the US government, the three seafarers who exposed illegal discharge from an MST Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition und Transport ship in 2017 will receive whistleblower awards.
Jaroslav Hornof, the Czech third engineer onboard the 27,700-dwt Marguerita (built 2016), was given $225,000 this week after documenting and reporting a scheme to bypass pollution prevention equipment to release oily bilge water into the open ocean.
