Two Greek companies and three crew members have been convicted on charges they violated US Caribbean emissions control area regulations 26 times over 18 months.
Ionian Shipping & Trading and Lily Shipping will pay $1.5m each while Stamatios Alekidis, Anthanasios Pittas and Rey Espulgar will serve three years probation after the 8,016-dwt Ocean Princess (built 2003) repeatedly burned high sulphur fuel in the waters off the US Virgin Islands between January 2017 and July 2018.
