Singapore shipyard fined US$19,000 after seven deaths

A Singapore court has fined a state-linked company less than US$20,000 for safety lapses that led to the deaths of seven foreign workers in a shipyard fire, the company said.
Keppel Corp Ltd, the world’s largest maker of offshore oil rigs, said in a statement that its Keppel Shipyard unit was fined S$30,000 (US$19,000) on Friday for an oversight that led to a fire on May 29, 2004. The company could have been fined up to S$35,000. Keppel Corp is 32-percent owned by the Singapore government’s investment arm Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd.