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Princess Cruises: $20m Fine for Breaking Probation Conditions
Princess Cruise Lines, a Carnival-owned cruise brand, has been fined an additional $20 million for breaking conditions attached to a probation stemming from an earlier, pollution case.
The new fine, handed out to the company by a US court this week, was among other things for discharging plastic into waters in the Bahamas and falsifying records, according to a report by the New York Times.
Princess Cruise Lines were fined $40m in 2016 for illegally dumping oil-contaminated waste into the sea. The company will remain on probation for three years.
Carnival, which is the world's biggest cruise operators, is valued at around $35 billion and said to control about half of the global market.
The biggest cruise market is in the United States with growing markets in Europe and Asia.
