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Environmental

Nov. 18, 2011

Shipping company fined for oil dumping

A Panamanian shipping company will pay $650,000 for illegally dumping ship oil waste near the San Francisco Bay as part of plea agreement announced by the U.S. Attorney's office Wednesday.

By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A Panamanian shipping company will pay $650,000 for illegally dumping ship oil waste near the San Francisco Bay as part of plea agreement announced by the U.S. Attorney's office Wednesday.

Dianik Bross Shipping Corp. S.A. pleaded guilty to violating national and international oil pollution laws after the engineer on its 622-foot bulk carrier M/V Kostas N tinkered with the ship's pollution control systems several times and di...

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