Shipping Company Pleads Guilty To Discharges, Agrees To Pay $3.2M Penalty

(November 6, 2018, 7:47 AM EST) -- PORTLAND, Maine — A German shipping company pleaded guilty on Nov. 2 in Louisiana federal court to charges of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and obstruction of justice for illegally discharging bilge oil from one of its ships over a nine-month period and agreed to pay a $3.2 million civil penalty (United States v. MST Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition Und Transport GMBH, No. 17cr117, D. Maine)....

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