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Tanker operator fined for bilge discharge and sea pollution

The taker operator Sea World Management & Trading and one of its officers Edmon Fajardo have been convicted of maintaining false and incomplete records related to oil and garbage discharges from the "Sea Faith" that was operating off the Texas coast near Corpus Christi in early 2017. The US Justice Department said the company and captain Fajardo pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and to not accurately maintaining the Sea Faith's oil and garbage record books. From March 10-18, 2017, Fajardo ordered the crew to illegally discharge oily waste from various locations of the vessel's cargo deck spaces, as well as throw plastics, empty steel drums, oily rags, batteries and empty paint cans directly overboard into the ocean. Sea World was fined US$2.25 million and was also ordered to serve a three-year probationary period during which all vessels operated by the company and calling US ports will be required to implement an environmental compliance plan. The captain of the Sea Faith was sentenced to six months in jail, followed by two years of supervised release and a $2,000 fine.