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A Greek court overturned an earlier court ruling that allowed the confiscation by the US of part of a cargo of Iranian oil on an Iranian-flagged tanker off the Greek coast.

The Chief Engineer of a foreign flagged vessel pleaded guilty to two felony counts for deliberately discharging approximately 10,000 gallons of oil-contaminated bilge water overboard in U.S. waters off the coast of New Orleans last year and then trying to obstruct USCG’s investigation of the spill. 

Liquimar Tankers Management Services and Evridiki Navigation were sentenced after being convicted at trial on all charges, including violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, falsifying ships’ documents, obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard inspection and making false statements to U.S. Coast Guard inspectors. 

A federal jury convicted an Ohio man of all four counts in a federal indictment charging him in connection with pipe bombs found on tugboats on the Ohio River.

A Missouri judge dismissed all criminal charges against three tour boat company employees of Ride the Ducks Branson in connection with the deadly sinking on Table Rock Lake in 2018 that killed 17 people near Branson.

Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, a scalloping ship crew member, pleaded guilty in Boston’s federal court for murder in the 2018 incident off the Massachusetts coast, after he reportedly attacked three crew members and, eventually, killing one. 

Houston-based pipeline owner Amplify Energy Corp sued two major container ship operators and an organization that helps oversee marine traffic, saying they failed to prevent last fall’s underwater pipeline leak off the Southern California coast.

John Southam and David Berkeley provide the legal perspective in the case of CMA CGM Libra in SeaSense column, our special column in association with the North P&I Club.

A Brisbane court charged the the captain of APL England - who had lost containers overboard in a storm, 20 months ago - clearing the way for a trial to take place.

Following the release of three suspected pirates held in custody on board Danish frigate Esbern Snare, BIMCO calls on African States in the Gulf of Guinea region to act and prosecute pirates who are apprehended by international navies.