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The Coast Guard has made no decision re the general acceptability of UV as a treatment process Recently the Coast Guard has been responding to rumors that type approval of ballast water managementsystems (BWMS) that incorporate ultraviolet radiation (UV) as a disinfection process will not be possibleunder Coast Guard type approval requirements. These rumors are not true.The Coast Guard has made no decision regarding the general acceptability ofUV as a treatment process or the specific acceptability of any UV-based BWMS for purposes of typeapproval under the Coast Guard's March 2012 Ballast Water Discharge Standard Final Rule.USCG believes this misunderstanding has arisen due to differences between the type approval testing that hasbeen conducted in accordance with the International Convention for the Management of Ships' BallastWater and Sediments adopted by the International Maritime Organization in 2004, and the Coast Guard'stype approval testing procedures as established in the Ballast Water Discharge Standard Final Rule,specifically in 46 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 162.060.Some individuals are under theimpression that UV systems with type approval granted by other Administrations on the basis of numbersof "viable organisms" will not pass the Coast Guard's "living organism" threshold, and therefore cannotbe type approved by the Coast Guard.The Coast ...

The West of England has issued news alert on its website to remind operator for the new ECA requirements that will enter into force on January 1st, 2014 and covers waters under the jurisdiction of the United States surrounding Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, extending approximately 50 nautical miles from the coast.

The Coast Guard has issued monetary penalties to three vessel operators in violation of federal regulations related to tank vessel response plan requirements.

Bulletin addresses the intentional securing of fixed water-based fire fighting systems onboard USCG has issued Marine Safety Information Bulletin No 41. to address the international securing of fixed water- based fire fighting systems onboard certain vessels.Machinery spaces onboard vessels are particularly high risk areas for fires. Locations such as main and auxiliary engine tops, fuel oil purifiers, burners and incinerator burners are major areas of concern. Fires in these areas can spread very quiclky, causing serious damage placing vessels, their crews and the ports they visit at risk. To protect against this fire risk, Category A machinery spaces containing oil-fired boilers or oil fuel units must be fitted with a fixed fire-extinguishing sustem (SOLAS II-2/10.5.1.1). In addition, Category A machinery spaces above 500m3 in volume must have an approved type of fixed water-based or equivalent local application fire-extinguishing system (SOLAS II-2/10.5.6.1). This fixed water-based local application fire-fightinh system is intended to protect the crew and affected machinery quiclky, and without the necessity of engine shutdown, personnel evacuation, or sealing the space.Where the Category A machinery space protected by the local application fire-extinguishing system is periodically unattended, the system must be provided with both automatic and manual release capability.During recent port ...

The Coast Guard issued a $5,000 notice of violation to the Liberian flagged cargo ship Ken Cape for failure to report a hazardous condition on board the vessel.

Response crews commenced lifting operations of the 154-foot sunken towboat from the Mississippi River bank near LeClaire, Iowa, Monday.

The US Coast Guard have now published their Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the non-tank final rule.

The icebreaker POLAR STAR departed Seattle in support of Operation Deep Freeze for the first time since 2006 with the task of resupplying the National Science Foundation (NSF) scientific research station at McMurdo.

The U.S. Coast Guard has updated the list of the Ballast Water Treatment Systems (BWTS) accepted for use in US water as Alternate Management Systems (AMS).

USCG has issued press release to confirm that the Mississippi River was reopened