Chinese chief engineer jailed in the US

A Chinese chief engineer, Fei Wang, 38, has been sentenced in the US to three months in prison and three years of supervised release over an oily bilge water release last year. 

Wang was working on the ASL Singapore, a Chinese-owned bulk carrier, when it was inspected in New Orleans by the US Coast Guard in February last year, when it was found that he had been falsifying logs about oily bilge water discharges over a five-month period. 

It emerged the crew used a portable pump and flexible hose—a so-called magic pipe—to dispose of oily bilge water in violation of regulations.