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| March 2002 |
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| USA v. Fairport Shipping, LTD. |
| Statute(s): APPS |
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| Summary: On March 6, 2002, the M/V Asahi, a refrigerated cargo vessel operated by a Liberian company headquartered in Greece named Fairport Shipping, entered Dutch Harbor, Alaska traveling from Tokyo. The U.S. Coast Guard conducted a vessel examination of the engine room and discovered a "by-pass" hose used to illegally discharge oily waste water overboard on at least two occasions during the vessel's voyage. The chief engineer also presented record books containing false entries to the Coast Guard during the examination, one of which contained false entries during the time period from December 31, 2001 to March 5, 2002. |
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| Result: On June 23, 2008, Fairport Shipping was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to pay a fine of $250,000 for its conviction for failing to maintain an accurate oil record book, with $150,000 of the fine suspended on the condition that it commit no further violations of United States laws. Chief United States District Court Judge John W. Sedwick imposed the sentence pursuant to a plea agreement entered into by the parties. |
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