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• Thursday, April 27th 2017 - 09:55 UTC

  Major cruise line fined US$ 40 million for deliberate vessel pollution

  

  A major cruise line with ships that call on the Caribbean will have to pay a US$40 million penalty, the largest-ever for crimes involving deliberate vessel pollution. The sentence has been imposed on Princess Cruise Lines Ltd by US District Judge Patricia Seitz in Miami, for illegally dumping oil-contaminated waste overboard and falsifying official logs to conceal the discharges.

• Friday, December 2nd 2016 - 08:31 UTC

  Prince Cruise Lines fined US$ 40 million for dumping waste off England

  

  A US cruise liner is to pay a record fine of US$40m for dumping oil-contaminated waste, the US Department of Justice has said. The investigation into Princess Cruise Lines followed a tip-off that the company had illegally discharged oily waste off the coast of England in 2013.