Maersk captain was convicted for offences on ship – authority demands stronger sentence
US Coast Guard has appealed a verdict in an offence case, in which a Maersk captain in April was suspended for four months after having shown ”inappropriate conduct” toward a deck cadet. The case is one of several sexual offence cases aboard Maersk vessels.
by DAG HOLMSTAD
The US Coast Guard believes a captain at Maersk has gotten off the hook far too easily when a judge in April 2022 rejected that the captain had carried out ”gross sexual contacts” and ”sexual harassment” against a ship cadet aboard vessel Maersk Idaho back in 2014 and 2015.
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