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| Q3 2026 | 1 | €1.5m |
1 case
28 Aug 2026 MSC Shipmanagement Limited; Hong Kong Spirit Shipping and Trading LimitedMSC Shipmanagement: 1.75 million USD fine for secretly discharging oily bilge water €1.5m
On board the MSC Samira III, senior engineering officers had oily bilge water pumped overboard via the sewage tank, bypassing the oily water separator, in 2024/2025, manipulated the oil content monitoring and falsified the oil record book, which was presented to the Coast Guard in Philadelphia. The operator and the owner each pleaded guilty to two counts under the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and are paying a combined 1.75 million USD; in addition, there are four years of probation.
Shipping companies must actively monitor practice on board and the oil record book, because instructions given by individual officers are attributed to the company under criminal law.
MARPOL obligations on board, oil record book and reporting channels for crews
- Authority / court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Anklage: DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division)
- Area of law
- Environment and sustainability · Waste and hazardous substances
- Legal basis
- Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), 33 U.S.C. § 1908
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Transport, logistics and shipping
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- Second Engineer Mikhail Tsurikov also pleaded guilty; sentencing scheduled for 10 September 2026.
- Published
- 28 Aug 2026
Original amount 1,750,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Aug 2026.
- International Shipping Companies Sentenced to Pay $1.75 Million Fine for Concealing Discharges of Oily Waste into Ocean Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link