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IMC Shipping Pleads Guilty, Pays $4M For Alaskan Accident PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 27 August 2007 15:30
IMC Shipping pleaded guilty in US Federal court to accusations of illegally dumping oil and soy beans, and one count of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, for damages that resulted from the grounding of the M/V Selendang Ayu and the subsequent discharge of 340,000 gallons of bunker fuel and several thousand tons of soy beans into the Bering Sea.  The accident also precipitated the loss of a US Coast Guard helicopter that was participating in the rescue of the Selendang Ayu crew. Six members of the Selendang Ayu's crew died in the helicopter crash.   IMC Shipping will pay a  $4 million fine, $1 million of which will be paid to the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife sanctuary.  The fine only addresses the company's criminal liability. The cost of the cleanup has been put at more than $100 million. The spill damaged more than 20 miles of coastline.

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From Marine Link:

IMC Shipping Co. Pte. Ltd. (IMC), pleaded guilty in federal court in Alaska to a three-count information alleging two violations of the Refuse Act for the illegal discharge of oil and soy beans and one violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for killing of thousands of migratory birds that resulted from the grounding of the M/V Selendang Ayu on Dec. 8, 2004 in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. IMC was subsequently sentenced to pay a criminal penalty of $10m. The grounding of the M/V Selendang Ayu spilled approximately 340,000 gallons of bunker fuel, as well as several thousands of tons of soy beans, into the Bering Sea in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in the Aleutian Islands resulting in the deaths of several thousand migratory birds.
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