Evoqua Water Technologies and the service provider Drew Marine plan to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) next Tuesday (2 December) to seal a partnership to provide a supply-and-fit package for installing ballast water management systems (BWMSs). The MoU will be signed during the Marintec China exhibition in Shanghai.
Describing their joint service yesterday, the two companies said it would be based on Evoqua’s SeaCure BWMS and both parties will collaborate on sales for newbuildings and retrofits. Drew Marine will then be responsible for the retrofit engineering, design and installation management.
It will also provide after-sales service and lifetime compliance assurance in conjunction with Evoqua’s technology team and based on its service and logistics network in more than 900 ports worldwide.
In a joint statement, they said the SeaCure BWMS will ensure shipowners meet IMO standards but also predicted it will meet the US Coast Guard and US Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations.
SeaCure holds IMO’s active substance approval and type-approval but no system has yet been type-approved as meeting those US standards. SeaCure holds US Coast Guard approval as an Alternate Management Systems and passed the first phase of US type-approval tests – in brackish water – in July this year, with more tests planned.
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