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Main source of ballast water compliance and commissioning test failures is organisms ≥ 50 μm in size
In this article, we dive into an important finding from the experience-building phase (EBP) report associated with the Ballast Water Management Convention (2017-2018), which was established by the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC).
How to test compliance for VGP’s vessel discharge vs IMO’s BWMS D-2 standards
Vessels operating in United States waters must follow the vessel discharge standards of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Vessel General Permit (VGP). These define, among others, the maximum amount of organisms that may be present in ballast water discharge…
How to become an approved service provider for BWMS commissioning testing
Commissioning testing is a mandatory step to verify that newly installed ballast water management systems (BWMS) meet the D2 standard and function correctly – as per the IMO’s 2020 Guidance for the commissioning testing of ballast water management systems…
USCG & IMO Type Approved ballast water treatment systems
This list of BWTS suppliers is meant to provide an accessible overview of the available systems while it also provides information on each BWTS’s type-approval status and method of treatment employed as stated on each system’s website. It is not an exhaustive list of all the companies that produce…
What are the D-1 and D-2 regulation standards?
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is responsible for protecting the marine environment from the harmful impacts of shipping. The IMO develops global standards for ships to prevent the spread of invasive species and potentially harmful pathogens with the ability to destroy or disrupt foreign ecosystems…
What is an international ballast water management certificate?
The IMO adopted The Ballast Water Management Convention (the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004) on September 8th 2017. The regulation is meant to prevent the spread of invasive species and potentially harmful…
Developing a new ballast water test method – to address an important gap in ballast water compliance testing
The spread of invasive species in untreated ballast water represents a major threat to marine biodiversity, marine industry and human health. Certain organisms are more resistant to ballast water treatment than others. In particular, some life stages of invertebrates…
1.3 million DKK support to develop in-line ballast water quality monitoring platform
Shipowners installing Ballast water treatment systems are making a substantial technology investment but have no practical way to validate the system’s operational functionality. We want to change that. MicroWISE recently received funding from the Danish Environmental…