A Rhode Island court has ordered the owner of a Greek oil tanker to pay $2.25 million for discharging oil bilge water into the ocean and failing to report a hazardous condition during a trans-Atlantic voyage.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy on Aug. 8 sentenced Zeus Lines Management S.A., which owns the tanker Gallissas, to pay $1.68 million in fines and an additional $562,500 community service payment over safety and environmental violations aboard the tanker bound for the United States.
