A fishing boat is sanctioned for polluting the waters of the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The events occurred on November 12, when security operations were being carried out. fuel fuel transfer from one tank to another, the Ministry reports in a statement.

The captain of the ship declared that the discharge into the sea had been about 200 liters, but the maritime safety and inspection service of the Las Palmas Maritime Captaincy estimates that The spill could have touched 1,800 liters of fuel.

This episode of pollution forced the Captaincy to activate the National Maritime Plan in situation 1, the Interior Maritime Plan of the Port of Las Palmas was also activated and a operational for monitoring, control and cleaning of the spill.

The rapid response managed to limit the spill expansion so that it would not leave the port waters, is indicated in the note.

The Maritime Captaincy opened a sanctioning file and ordered the retention of the vessel and established a guarantee of 370,000 euros to the shipping company to face the penalty for marine pollution (250,000 euros), for not reporting the discharge into the sea (50,000 euros) and for the expenses derived from the actions of the Maritime Rescue services (70,000).

The guarantee has already been paid by the shipping company that owns the ship in the General Deposit Fund of the Ministry of Finance and The withholding has been lifted.

With it, the penalty established by the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy will be paid, once the file has been processed and resolved.