U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos has ordered Athens-headquartered Eurobulk Ltd to pay a criminal fine of $1.125 million after the company pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from
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U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos has ordered Athens-headquartered Eurobulk Ltd to pay a criminal fine of $1.125 million after the company pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and falsification of records.
Eurobulk admitted to violating APPS in April 2023 during a port call by the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Good Heart in the port of Corpus Christi as well as falsification of records during that same port call.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a Good Heart crewmember presented false records to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to conceal illegal transfers and discharges of oily bilge water from the vessel.
- In an earlier proceeding, on September 4, 2024, Good Heart’s former chief engineer, Greek national Christos Charitos, 72, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on an APPS charge for failing to record discharges in the vessel’s Oil Record Book (ORB). Christos was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine and complete a one-year term of unsupervised
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