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OMI to Pay $4.2M for

Waste Oil Dumping

OMI Corporation, was sentenced to pay $4.2 million for illegally concealing the dumping of thousands of gallons of waste oil and sludge at sea. U.S. District

Judge Katharine S. Hayden ordered

OMI Corporation, to pay a $4.2 million fine and serve three years of probation.

Judge Hayden also awarded $2.1 million of the fine to a former OMI crew mem- ber who reported the crimes to the gov - ernment.

In pleading guilty, OMI admitted that it had deliberately discharged waste oil, sludge and oily-water mixtures directly overboard from the oil tanker

Guadalupe without the use of an Oil

Water Separator. The deliberate dis- charges were then concealed in a false and fictitious Oil Record Book.

The government learned about OMI's criminal conduct from an individual who once served as a member of the engine room department on the

Guadalupe. In September. 2001. when the ship arrived in Carteret, NJ, the ship's 2nd Engineer walked off the ship and directly to the local police .

Sabine Transportaton

Sentenced for Illegal

Ocean Dumping

Sabine Transportation Company of

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, admitted it deliber- ately dumped waste oil, sludge, and oily mixtures from the S/S Trinity, the S/S

Juneau, the S/S Sea Princess, and the

S/S Colorado without the use of required pollution prevention equip- ment. and was sentenced to pay $2 mil- lion fine and three years of probation for illegally dumping thousands of gallons of waste oil, hundreds of tons of diesel- contaminated grain, and plastic wastes at sea. The deliberate discharges were concealed in false Oil Record Books.

The government learned about the ille- gal dumping aboard Sabine ships from crew members who served aboard the

S/S Trinity and the S/S Juneau. U.S.

District Judge Mark W. Bennett award- ed $1 million of the fine to the three for- mer Sabine crew members who reported the crimes to the government.

Shell Safety Award

Shuffles Off to Buffalo

Sheamus Keehan and Marco Galizioli,

Manager Americas, Operation Technical HS&E,

SMP U.S. present Shell's "Safety @ Heart" Award plaque to Pat Studdert, Pres., Buffalo Marine

Service, Inc., Houston.

Shell Marine Products recognized

Buffalo Marine Service, Inc., Houston as the recipient of Shell's "Safety @

Heart" Award (2004) in the 'Best Barge

Contractor" category. The nomination and selection was worldwide in scope.

Michiel Kool, CEI, Shell Marine

Products, extended his personal "thanks for the considerable effort you have expended toward making our industry a safer place to do business." Pat

Studdert. President. Buffalo Marine

Service acknowledged that selection and recognition by Shell Marine Products was an "honor" and recognition that "each day we attempt to do business that in a way that promotes a safer, cleaner and healthier environment in the Marine

Industry" by a company such as Shell

Marine Products (SMP) is a great "stim- ulus to all of us at Buffalo to continue our efforts." Buffalo Marine Service is a bunker company operating on the

Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast transport- ing bunker products for SMP.

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