Swedish authorities have fined a crew member aboard a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier after the vessel was caught dumping household waste into the Baltic Sea near Fårö.
The Swedish Coast Guard detected the incident on 20 October during an aerial patrol and later boarded the ship in Gothenburg. The crewman admitted to throwing garbage overboard and received a “50 daily-fine” penalty under Swedish law, calculated by income level.
Officials said the waste was ordinary trash but stressed that any littering at sea is illegal. Civil Defence Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin praised the case as an example of Sweden’s growing maritime surveillance against environmental violations.
