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A LOGISTICS company has been fined more than $7000 after it illegally dumped rubbish into Australian waters.
CFT Investments 1 LLC and ship master Angle Sacayanan both pleaded guilty in the Townsville Magistrates Court to disposing of garbage from a ship into the sea in the exclusive economic zone.
A ship sailing through Queensland waters dumped about 60 litres of condensed food waste north of Fraser Island, federal prosecutor Catherine Ferguson said.
Online due diligence and credit reporting website Infospectrum says CFT Investments is a privately-owned company registered in the US state of Delaware.
Defence barrister Harvey Walters said the waste discharge was not intentional, and was due to an officer's error.