Fine of 40 million dollars of the American authorities to the Princess Cruises for marine pollution



The American authorities have comminato to the crocieristica company Princess Cruises of the American group Carnival Corporation a fine of 40 million dollars, endorsement - it has emphasized the Department of USA Justice - that is elevated for a pollution intentional in sea and actions intentional faces to cover the illicit one.

The fine is consequence of a bargaining agreement for a pollution provoked from the cruise ship Caribbean Princess that has touched various ports of the United States in Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Porto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Islands American Virgos and Virginiums.

The investigation is released as a result of information supplied to US Coast British Guard from Maritime and the Coastguard Agency (MCA) that it has marked that a hardly boarded official of car on the Caribbean Princess has reported that so-called "magic a pice ones", pipeline that allows to exhaust contaminated liquids, was used on August 23, 2013 for the illegal drainage of oil waste to the wide one of the English coast. The official who had marked the illicit one had left the assignment when the ship had reached Southampton, while the chief engineer and the first official of car had ordered the subordinated ones to lie and to cover illicit rimuovendo the pipeline. The department of Justice American has explained that on September 14, 2013 Guard Costiera the USA has inspected the Caribbean Princess to its arrival to New York finding that some members of the crew continued to second lie the received orders.

The American ministerial department has specified that, based on the documentation deposited in court, a year has been assessed that the Caribbean Princess was carrying out illegal drainages from 2005, hardly after the beginning of its activity, and that they are used various methods for these illicit actions. Moreover the Department has specified that they are discovered practical illegal put into effect also from other four ships of the Princess Cruises, the Princess Star, Grand the Princess, Coral Princess and Golden Princess.

"In this case - it has emphasized the attorney general John C. Cruden - the pollution is the result more than simple completed illicit actions on a ship. It offers to a perception much negative of the culture and the management of the Princess. This - it has denounced - is a very aware company and that it would have had to make better. We hope that the outcome of this case can not only trace a new course for this company, but also for others".

The prosecuting attorney Wifredo To. Ferrer has raised the price the dose, that he has evidenced as this case is "particularly worrisome because the family of companies of the Carnival has a documented history of environmental violations, also in the District South of Florida. We confide - it has added - that all the societies respect the regulations that they are in vigor in order protect our natural resources and to prevent environmental damages". This case - it has concluded - "would have to send to the fort message to the other companies that the government of the United States will continue to relatively enforce politics of tolerance zero to the deliberated marine pollution that the species puts in danger numberless animals, the marine life and human beings that they count on waters clean in order to survive".