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Doorae Shipping Co. on Friday paid nearly $1 million in fines and a “community service payment” for maritime pollution violations. The $200,000 community service payment and $750,000 fine was part of the sentence Doorae received after pleading guilty in April to failing to maintain an accurate oil record book, in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, and making false statements to the U.S. Coast Guard concerning the discharge of oil contaminated bilge water, according to a statement from Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii. According to court documents, the operation of a marine vessel, such as the B. Sky, an oiltanker ship flagged out of Vanuatu and operated by Doorae, generates large quantities of waste oil and oil-contaminated wastewater. International and U.S. law requires that these vessels use pollution prevention equipment to preclude the discharge of these materials. Should any overboard discharges occur, they must be recorded in an oil record book, a log that is inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard. Information produced to the court established that instead of running bilge water through an oil water separator, the B. Sky discharged over 500 gallons of oily machinery space bilge water directly into the ocean and failed to record the discharge in their oil record book as required by law. http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/state-wire/shipping-company-pays-nearly-1m-maritime-pollution-violations

United States District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi accepted the guilty plea of Doorae Shipping Co., LTD, a South Korean maritime operations company, and sentenced the company to pay a fine of $750,000, a community service payment of $200,000, and a term of two years of probation for the failure to maintain an accurate oil record book, in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, and making false statements to the U.S. Coast Guard concerning the discharge of oil contaminated bilge water. According to the Information to which Doorae pled guilty, the operation of a marine vessel, such as the B. Sky, an oil tanker ship flagged out of Vanuatu and operated by Doorae, generates large quantities of waste oil and oil-contaminated waste water. International and U.S. law requires that these vessels use pollution prevention equipment to preclude the discharge of these materials. Should any overboard discharges occur, they must be recorded in an oil record book, a log that is inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard. http://www.marinelink.com/news/discharge-shipping407756.aspx