Tag: BWMS

The U.S. Patent Office has awarded Siemens Water Technologies a patent for a system and method to control biofouling of filters used as a first stage of treating ballast water in its SeaCURETM Ballast Water Management System

At present 38 countries , 30.3% of the worlds registered tonnage have ratified the Convention INTERTANKO welcomes the agreement reached this week by the IMO's Member States in revising the implementation schedule for the Ballast Water Management Convention and urges all Governments to adhere to this new schedule.The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) governing body, the Assembly, adopted a Resolution this week in London that pins the application dates of the Ballast Water Management Convention to the entry into force date.This in effect makes all vessels constructed before the entry into force date 'existing' vessels, and allows for the installation of a ballast water management system (BWMS) on such vessels at the first renewal survey following entry into force.At present 38 countries representing 30.3% of the world's registered tonnage have ratified the Convention. The Convention will enter into force 12 months after the ratification by more than 35 countries representing more than 35% of the world's tonnage.The adoption of this Assembly Resolution is a major step in making the implementation of the international Convention workable once it comes into force. In 2012, INTERTANKO had led the submission of a paper to the IMO's Marine Environment and Protection Committee (MEPC), drawing the ...

Wärtsilä has been granted Alternate Management System (AMS) acceptance for its AQUARIUSUV Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) by USCG

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) announced that its electrolysis-based ballast water treatment system, HiBallast, was accepted as Alternative Management System (AMS) by the United States Coast Guard. This comes after the company won type approval from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2011.

California Clarifies BWMS Position

Major industry concerns over the cost of implementation The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meets for its 65th session this week, at IMO Headquarters in London. An important issue on the MEPC agenda is consideration of a draft IMO Assembly resolution on the application of regulation B-3 of the BWM Convention.In opening address of the MEPC session, IMO's Secretary General Koji Sekimizu called on more nations forimplementation of the Ballast Water Management Convention. "With 36 contracting parties to date and with the only outstanding entry into force condition of 35% of the world's merchant tonnage now being close to fulfilment, a little under 6% is all that is still required. We ought to be optimistic that the Convention will enter into force soon." However, he noted that "the industry continues to have major concerns over the cost of compliance".The Secretary strongly suggested that now is the time to move towards implementation. The problem associated with ballast water is inherently connected to the expansion of world trade and, therefore, an issue from which the shipping industry cannot escape.He further noted "It is recognized that there is a substantive cost required for installing and operating a ...

First Chinese BWMS manufacturer to win Full-Scale AMS Certificate

Ecochlor BWMS gets USCG AMS acceptance

The first Danish ballast water management system has just been approved

MOL to Install Ballast Water Treatment System on VLCC