{"id":5554,"date":"2020-03-03T13:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/unix-line-convicted-for-concealing-illegal-discharge\/5554\/"},"modified":"2020-03-03T13:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:12:28","slug":"unix-line-convicted-for-concealing-illegal-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/unix-line-convicted-for-concealing-illegal-discharge\/5554\/","title":{"rendered":"Unix Line Convicted for Concealing Illegal Discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.maritimeprofessional.com\/images\/maritime\/w200\/anderson-marinetrafficcom-110489.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singapore-based shipping company Unix Line PTE Ltd. pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Unix Line admitted that its crew members onboard the 16,408 gross-ton oceangoing motor tanker Zao Galaxy knowingly failed to record in the vessel\u2019s oil record book the overboard discharge of oily bilge water without the use of required pollution-prevention equipment, during the vessel\u2019s voyage from the Philippines to Richmond, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to the plea agreement, Unix Line is the operator of the Zao Galaxy, which set sail carrying a cargo of palm oil from the Philippines on January 21, 2019, bound for Richmond. On February 11, 2019, the Zao Galaxy arrived in Richmond, where it underwent a U.S. Coast Guard inspection and examination. Examiners discovered that during the voyage, a Unix Line-affiliated ship officer directed crew members to discharge oily bilge water overboard, using a configuration of drums, flexible pipes and flanges to bypass the vessel\u2019s oil water separator. The discharges were knowingly not recorded in the Zao Galaxy\u2019s oil record book.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Unix Line\u2019s sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 20 before U.S. District Court Judge Jon S. Tigar in Oakland, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore-based shipping company Unix Line PTE Ltd. pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. Unix Line admitted that its crew members onboard the 16,408 gross-ton oceangoing motor tanker Zao Galaxy knowingly failed to record in the vessel\u2019s oil record book the overboard discharge of oily &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2548,2547,2549,1898,1426,2454],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-concealing","tag-convicted","tag-discharge","tag-illegal","tag-line","tag-unix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}