“非法排放废油”，船长在美国被判刑8个月
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一艘成品油轮的船长因在美国违反了《国际防止船舶造成污染公约》（MARPOL公约），并试图向美国海岸警卫队隐瞒信息，最近被美国新奥尔良一家联邦法院判处八个月监禁。9月26日，法院完成了此案的审理，接受了该船运营商的认罪，并命令他们支付200万美元的罚款和四年的缓刑。
这些指控涉及对悬挂巴拿马国旗的油轮P/S Dream轮的调查，该油轮由两家关联公司：注册在迪拜的航运公司Prive Overseas
Marine 以及土耳其公司Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret 运营。
2023年1月26日，P/SDream
轮于抵达新奥尔良港，船上的一名船员向美海岸警卫队举报，并分享了该船非法排放废油和由此产生的油污的视频。当该船抵达路易斯安那州时，另一名船员站出来向美国海岸警卫队提供了一名警官讨论排放的录音。
该船船长、37 岁的土耳其人阿卜杜拉赫曼·科尔克马兹 (Abdurrahman Korkmaz)
也受到了单独指控。今年6月份，船长于对指控进行了认罪。
检察官指控称，2023年1月，在前往新奥尔良的途中，船长命令船员 用清洁剂清洗船舱，并
将含油的废物排到船外。船员们用一台便携式泵在三天内将废物排到船外，还拍照记录违法行为，并将信息提供给美国海岸警卫队检查员。这成为该案的核心。
此外，他们还表示，船长与公司岸基办公室保持联系，并查看了船上正在进行的工作，包括向他们发送了清理船舱外观的照片。他们还表示，Prive
Shipping 公司知道油污废物仍留在船上，并被船长告知将倾倒到海里。
排放完成后，他们指控被告伪造了船舶的记录簿，省略了排放的过程。美国海岸警卫队在检查期间向其出示了被伪造的日志，目的是掩盖船员
向海里倾倒石油污染废物的事实，这些举措违反了 《国际防止船舶造成污染公约》。
这两家航运公司于今年5月承认了串谋、妨碍司法公正和违反 《国际防止船舶造成污染公约》的指控。在 9月26
的法庭听证会上，这两家公司昨天被判处200
万美元的刑事罚款并完成四年的缓刑。200万美元的刑事罚款包括50万美元的组织社区服务费，将用于资助美国路易斯安那州东区的各种海洋环境项目。这些项目将由国会成立的国家鱼类和野生动物基金会管理。
作为缓刑条件，这两家公司还必须在未来四年内遵守环境合规计划，该计划规定了审计、安全和检查要求。
Tanker Captain Gets Prison Sentence Over Environmental
Crimes
The operators of a Panama-registered tanker have been fined $2
million and the ship's captain sentenced to eight months in prison
over charges stemming from environmental violations in the United
States, the Department of Justice announced.
Dubai-based Prive Overseas Marine LLC and Turkey-based Prive
Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret, the two corporations that operated the
motor tanker P/S Dream, were sentenced in federal court in New
Orleans to pay a $2 million criminal penalty and complete four
years of probation. The companies pleaded guilty in May to charges
of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and violating the Act to
Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS).
In addition, the court sentenced the P/S Dream’s captain, Turkish
national Abdurrahman Korkmaz, on Sept. 10 to eight months in prison
for an APPS offense and obstructing the U.S. Coast Guard’s
investigation.
The charges pertain to the investigation of the P/S Dream vessel
when it was heading to New Orleans in January 2023. Senior
corporate managers were aware that Korkmaz had arranged to
discharge oil-contaminated waste from a residual tank on deck into
the ocean. The captain ordered the crew to pump the waste overboard
and clean the tank with soap. The seamen rigged a portable pump to
empty the contents overboard over three days. The defendants
falsified the vessel’s oil record book by omitting the
discharge.
One of the crew members alerted the Coast Guard and shared videos
of the discharge and resulting oil sheen. When the ship arrived in
Louisiana, another crew member came forward and gave the Coast
Guard a recording of an officer discussing the discharge.
The falsified logs, presented to the Coast Guard during its
inspection, were intended to conceal the fact that the crew had
dumped oil-contaminated waste overboard in violation of MARPOL
Annex I, an international treaty regulating oil pollution from
ships. Corporate representatives at Prive Shipping were aware that
the oil-contaminated waste remained in the tank and were informed
by the ship’s master that it had been dumped overboard.
The $2 million criminal penalty includes $500,000 in organizational
community service payments that will fund various maritime
environmental projects in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Those
projects will be managed by the congressionally established
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation. As a condition of
probation, the corporations must also adhere to an environmental
compliance plan mandating audit, safety and inspection requirements
over the next four years.
