Ballast water sample. Image courtesy SGS. After much discussion and three rounds of votes, text for the interim guidance for ships ballasting in challenging, high sediment water was finally approved ...
Last year has proven to be the best on record, with roughly 200 BIO-Sea units delivered. All told, since we entered the ballast water market, we have about 700 units in service or pending ...
When Port State Control (PSC) rolls out its annual Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) in September 2025, it will turn its ...
Ballast water management is a critical component of modern maritime operations, essential for maintaining vessel stability while posing significant environmental challenges. The inadvertent transport ...
Introduction -- Vessels and Ballast Water -- The Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens with Ballast Water and their Impacts -- Policy and Legal Framework and the Current Status of ...
Ships take in and let out millions of gallons of water from ballast tanks to help balance loads, often when loading and unloading and sometimes when they are under way for stability. Ballast water is ...
The discharge of ballast water used to balance a ship is a real man-bites-dog story. This is an issue where environmental groups, public health organizations, businesses, trade associations, tribes, ...
The Coast Guard updated its ballast water management rules by now allowing a certain concentration of living organisms in ballast water discharged from ships in U.S. waters. The amended standards were ...
Through a lot of expensive and dangerous trial-and-error over multiple centuries — sometimes resulting in shipwrecks you still can explore today — humans have ...
The ballast water of saltwater ships that enter the Great Lakes could be treated effectively and relatively inexpensively at an on-land treatment plant, according to a study paid for by the Wisconsin ...
BIO-UV Group has completed the first commercial deployment of its containerised BIO-SEA ballast water treatment system (BWTS) ...
The National Inland Waterways Authority has identified ballast water as the major cause of water hyacinth infestation on Nigerian waterways.The Lagos Area Manager of NIWA, Sarat Braimah, stated this ...