{"id":8791,"date":"2005-07-15T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T10:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2005\/07\/15\/first-marine-faces-the-oily-water\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:22:02","slug":"first-marine-faces-the-oily-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/first-marine-faces-the-oily-water\/","title":{"rendered":"First Marine faces the oily water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Japan&#8217;s First Marine Service has plead guilty to US criminal charges of falsifying records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federal prosecutors in Oregon had charged the company with failure to maintain an accurate oil record book, a felony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First Marine is associated with Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha, a joint venture of Mitsui OSK Line and Sumitomo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The charges before the US federal court for the District of Oregon concerned the then Burmese-flag, 24,000-dwt bulker Bright Nextage (built 1995, now Tinos).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The handysize bulker, which is now managed by Greece&#8217;s Lydia Mar Shipping, was docked on the Williamette River in Spring 2002 when a Washington state inspector discovered signs of illegal waste dumping, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company will pay $500,000 of which $350,000 is a criminal fine and the rest goes to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to contribute to environmental restoration in the Columbia River estuary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bright Nextage was reported sold in February 2003 for some $8.5m to Germany&#8217;s August Bolten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By <em><strong>Bob Rust<\/strong><\/em> in Osio<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s First Marine Service has plead guilty to US criminal charges of falsifying records. Federal prosecutors in Oregon had charged the company with failure to maintain an accurate oil record book, a felony. First Marine is associated with Daiichi Chuo Kisen Kaisha, a joint venture of Mitsui OSK Line and Sumitomo. The charges before the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-8791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-information","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21093,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions\/21093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}