Authorities in Gibraltar have fined the captain of the bulker responsible for last month's bunker fuel spill, while ship manager Anglo-Eastern has paid £1.5m ($2.1m) for clean-up costs.

Captain Ashish Maini, a 43-year-old Indian national and the master of the 93,200-dwt AM Ghent's (built 2011), was fined £20,000 in the British overseas territory's Magistrates Court on 5 March, the Gibraltar Chronicle reported.