United States v. Eagle Ship Management, LLC, et al.

On October 16, 2025, a court sentenced Eagle Ship Management, LLC (Eagle), to pay a $1,750,000 fine and complete a four-year term of probation to include implementing an environmental compliance plan. Eagle pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (33 U.S.C. § 1908). This case stems from the deliberate discharge of approximately 10,000 gallons of oily bilge water overboard in U.S. waters off the coast of New Orleans from the M/V Gannet Bulker, a foreign-flag vessel registered in the Marshall Islands.

A member of the ship’s crew reported the illegal discharge to the U.S. Coast Guard via social media. At the time of the discharge, the Gannet Bulker was at an anchorage near the mouth of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, within U.S. navigable waters.

Kirill Kompaniets, the vessel’s Chief Engineer, was previously sentenced to serve a year and a day in prison followed by six months of supervised release, and to pay a $5,000 criminal fine, for obstructing justice and directing the illegal discharge.

The U.S. Coast Guard conducted the investigation.