Japan’s Nitta Kisen Kaisha is to pay $1m in fines for flouting strict US anti-pollution laws, the US Justice Department has confirmed.
On Thursday it was convicted and sentenced for obstruction of justice and falsification of an oil record book to cover-up intentional oil pollution.
The Kobe-based shipowner admitted that its engineers failed to document the illegal discharge of oily wastes from fuel and lubrication oil purifier systems of the 33,500-dwt Atlantic Oasis (built 2011) as well as discharges of oily bilge waste from the bilge holding tank and from its bilges.
