Tag: water quality

Neil Dalus, the Risk Assessment Manager at TT Club, emphasizes on TT Talk the crucial importance of maintaining a clean water supply onboard ships.

The Ballast Water Equipment Manufacturers’ Association (BEMA) highlights the need to address the issue of BWMS operation in ports with challenging waters. On the occasion of MEPC 76 last year, BEMA issued a position paper to discuss related challenges for consideration.

Following an analysis of current research related to microplastics in drinking-water, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a further assessment of microplastics in the environment and their potential impacts on human health.

During the Nor-Shipping Conference, Wärtsilä presented its development work on a smart concept for onboard water and waste systems. The work consists of the latest environmental technology and expertise, along with real-time data collection and digital modelling. 

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners granted over $3 million in order to support four projects that will help improve water quality in and around Long Beach as part of the Port Community Grants Program. The $46.4 million program aims at reducing the environmental impacts of goods movement.

South African attorneys Shepstone & Wylie have alerted North P&I Club that restrictions imposed on the supply of fresh water to vessels calling at Cape Town, North Club mentions in an announcement.

The entry into force of the Maritime Labor Convention (MLC 2006 Regulation 3.2) in August 2013 requires ship owners to carry out "regular comprehensive documented testing of the ship's drinking water supplies" in accordance with World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines

A negative effect on water quality China's maritime authorities said Tuesday that two oil spills that occurred near the country's northeastern coast last month have had a negative effect on water quality in a "broad sea area" in addition to seriously polluting 840 square km of sea area.An area of 3,400 square km in China's Bohai Bay has been affected by the spills, with the area's water quality rating slipping from level I to levels III and IV, the North China Sea Branch of the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced Tuesday in a press release.The oil spills, which occurred in the bay's Penglai 19-3 oilfield, have also seriously polluted 840 km of sea area in the bay, sending water quality ratings in the area to their lowest level. Spilled oil has been detected in sediment samples taken from areas near the oilfield, according to the press release.The oilfield is home to oil platforms operated by ConocoPhillips China (COPC), a subsidiary of U.S. energy giant ConocoPhillips, under a joint development agreement with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the country's largest offshore oil producer.While the COPC said last week that the oil spills have been contained and that clean-up efforts ...