When the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention entered into force, many believed that installing an approved ballast water ...

It seems like a lifetime coming, but the IMO International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM) has been approved and will enter into force on ...

Installing ballast water treatment systems to comply with new regulations will require owners to automate ballast operations on board their vessels or barges. Retrofitting ballast water treatment ...

This chapter identifies various methods of treating ballast water that are safe, practicable, technically feasible, cost-effective, and environmentally acceptable. The main focus is on treatment ...

Ships have always required ballast to operate successfully and safely. For millennia, ships carried solid ballast in the form of rocks, sand, roof tiles, and many other heavy materials. From the 1880s ...