GMS fined for trading vessel containing PCBs

摘要

The Basel Action Network (BAN)toxic trade watchdog has declared victory after a US business involved in sending hundreds of ships to the shopbreaking beaches of Bangladesh and India was forced to pay out more than US$ 500 000.In February 2008, BAN and the Save the Classic Liners Campaign tipped off the US Environmental Protection Agency when they discovered that Global Marketing Systems, Inc. had taken ownership of the 'SS Oceanic', a cruise ship formerly known as the 'SS Independence'. The liner was towed out of San Francisco Bay and was bound for scrapping on the beaches of South Asia, according to BAN.