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Carrier fined after polluting with dirty bilge water

Solvang-owned Clipper Shipping has admitted to discharging oily water from a ship that was anchored near a port in West Africa.
It was the Coast Guard at the Port of Houston that discovered Clipper Saturn's (not pictured) illegal maneuver. File photo of the Port of Houston. | Photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
It was the Coast Guard at the Port of Houston that discovered Clipper Saturn's (not pictured) illegal maneuver. File photo of the Port of Houston. | Photo: Loren Elliott/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
by ASTRID STURLASON

A US court has found Clipper Shipping, part of the Norwegian shipping group Solvang, guilty in a pollution case. The company must therefore pay a fine of USD 1.5m. 

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