ROYAL CARIBBEAN PLEADS GUILTY TO POLLUTION.Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, the world's second-largest passenger cruise line A cruise line is a company that operates cruise ships. Cruise lines have a dual character; they are partly in the transportation business, and partly in the leisure entertainment business, a duality that carries down into the ships themselves, which have both a crew headed by the , has agreed to plead guilty and pay a record US$18 million fine for dumping oily bilge water bilge water n. 1. Water that collects and stagnates in the bilge of a ship. 2. Slang Nonsense. Noun 1. and other pollutants pollutants see environmental pollution. from its fleet of ships, says the U.S. Justice Department, reports CANA-Reuters (July 29, 1999). It said the Miami-based cruise line agreed to a 21-count felony plea agreement for dumping waste oil and hazardous chemicals at sea, in ports and in sensitive environmental areas, and then lying about it to the U.S. Coast Guard. The US$18 million in fines (the largest ever to be paid by a cruise line for polluting pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. U.S. waters) were in addition to US$9 million in fines agreed to by Royal Caribbean last year. |
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