(Hai Fe) - The shipping company Sea Trinity Shipping LTD and the ship's mechanics were fined a total of 120,000 NIS in addition to a suspended sentence for the shipping company. This was due to irregularities in the documentation of the discharge of oily waste on the ship.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection informed Hai Pa News Corporation:
Following investigative actions by the inspectors of the northern station in the national unit for the protection of the marine environment in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Haifa Magistrate's Court convicted Sea Trinity Shipping LTD and the ship's mechanic for the offense of illegally filling an oil book, and sentenced them to a total fine of NIS 120 along with imprisonment for A condition for the shipping company
Fred Arzuan, Director of the Marine Environmental Protection Unit at the Ministry of Environmental Protection: "This is an important achievement by the inspectors of the National Marine Environmental Protection Unit and the Legal Bureau of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, who work professionally to promote supervision and enforcement for the benefit of the marine environment and the public in Israel. ships and the crews who understand the consequences for improper management of the systems and reports when they arrive in the maritime space of the State of Israel"
Failure to maintain books
Following investigative actions by the inspectors of the northern station of the national unit for the protection of the marine environment in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Magistrate's Court in Haifa presided over by Judge Tal Tadmor-Zamir convicted the company SEA TRINITY SHIPPING LTD as well as the ship's mechanic Nikolai Levenko, for irregularities in the oil book in which there should be an entry accurate of the ship's oily waste. The ship carries a Liberian flag.
By law, every large vessel entering Israeli ports is required to keep a book in which all loading and unloading operations of oil and fuel are recorded. An inspector from the national unit for the protection of the marine environment in the Ministry of Environmental Protection comes and examines the vessel reports in the book and calculates the quantities according to the actions taken. If there is no match or the book is filled out in a non-standard way (it is not possible to understand where the oils were sent, or there is no consistency in the quantities, or there are deficiencies, etc.) the Ministry of Environmental Protection can consider opening a criminal investigation, depending on the findings. In this case, the ministry opened a criminal investigation against the shipping company and the ship's crew, and at the end of it, a letter of confirmation was submitted against them.
Plea settlement: The company was fined NIS 100,000 and the mechanic NIS 20,000
As part of a plea deal, Judge Tadmor-Zamir sentenced the company to a fine of NIS 100 along with an undertaking of double the fine for 3 years not to commit the offense, along with a suspended sentence for the shipping company. The court sentenced Nikolai Levenko, the ship's mechanic, to a fine of NIS 20, as well as an undertaking of double the fine for 3 years not to commit the offense.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection will continue to operate with all enforcement and administrative tools at its disposal in order to maintain the cleanliness of the sea and its beaches for the benefit of the general public and future generations.
By the time a ship arrives in Israel, it is confiscated
Where is there a prison where a "shipping company" can be imprisoned?
The judge from Haifa must know.
Almost every Saturday when a ship enters the port of Haifa there are trails of waste or bilge from the ship being discharged into the port water.