In October last year maritime violation charges that had been previously dropped over the incident were reinstated by a Costa Rican prosecutor and an international arrest warrant was issued.
A source said that an examining magistrate sent the summons to the company last week and had warned the company that she planned to place it under judicial investigation, the first step to formal charges, for "maritime pollution" and "collusion in endangering lives".
They cited the federal statute under which Ms. Mauskopf's office has been weighing charges, a maritime law used nearly 100 years ago to convict the captain of the General Slocum after more than 1,000 people died in a fire on that vessel, an excursion steamer, in the East River in June 1904.
Dr. Joseph Weiskopf, the officer in charge of maritime inspection, told about the communicable diseases they are on the lookout for.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 — A California maritime agency has filed misconduct charges against the American captain at the helm of a Chinese container ship that hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Nov. 7, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel and fouling 40 miles of shore.
He appeared in court charged under New Zealand maritime law with "operating a vessel in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk".
The head of the EU border agency has said that saving migrants' lives in the Mediterranean should not be the priority for the maritime patrols he is in charge of, despite the clamour for a more humane response from Europe following the deaths of an estimated 800 people at sea at the weekend.
For example, with regard to checking ship safety, "it is the job of Port State Control (PSC)… we will focus on particular ships which had illegal records in the past and they have high likelihood to be checked when they call at the port… Maritime and Port Bureau (MPB) take charge of this job.
However, the allocation of top roles started changing in 2012, when an Australian was put in charge of the maritime component, and Canada has also taken on a key role as RIMPAC changes to a more global event.
He released Innes on unconditional bail until then The Maritime and Coastguard Agency announced the charges in October and said in a statement: "The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has carried out an investigation lasting more than two years into the circumstances surrounding the loss of the Cheeki Rafiki in May 2014.
