According to the Associated Press, Chandris entered a guilty plea admitting violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships earlier this week in Corpus Christi Federal Court.
The Court ordered the company to pay a $800,000 fine, plus a $200,000 community service payment to the US National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
In December, 2014, the Chief Engineer of the Chandris-managed Suezmax ‘Sestrea’ failed to document that the ship had dumped oily waste into the sea that should have been disposed through a separator on board the vessel or burned in the ship’s incinerator, AP reported.
The company was also given three years’ probation.