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Hamburg issues discharge permit to Bawat for mobile system

Hamburg’s Authority for Environment, Climate, Energy, and Agriculture (BUKEA) has become the first European authority to allow for the treatment and discharge of ballast water by a mobile unit.

Nick Savvides, Europe correspondent

May 20, 2024

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Nasdaq-listed Danish manufacturer Bawat offers Ballast as a Service operating its treatment system from a mobile container. The system will mean that vessel operators that have failed to meet the ballast water standards will be able to comply with the Ballast Water Convention, which will be fully implemented in September, and legally discharge water for treatment by Bawat systems.

The Danish company has now appointed an operating partner company, Jongen GmbH & Co. KG, which it says has long-term experience in waste removal from ships in Hamburg.

Chris Todd, VP of Global Field Operations, said: “Selecting Hamburg as the global launchpad for Ballast as a Service is a natural choice, given its stature as a major port facility in Germany and Europe,” Todd added, “Over the coming months, we aim to extend Ballast as a Service to more key ports for enhanced response capabilities.”

The company hopes to offer similar services in ports across Europe and in major ports around the world.

Owner Marcus Peter Hummer has said that the port of Hamburg had admitted that two-to-three vessels per week were calling at the port with a non-functioning ballast water treatment systems.

The Bawat mobile unit effectively pasteurises ballast water eliminating invasive species completely in a simple and effective way. The mobile version of the system can treat 300 litres of water per hour, while consuming less than a litre of diesel for every 1,000 litre of treated water.

Related:Clock ticks down on ballast water compliance

About the Author

Nick Savvides

Europe correspondent

Experienced journalist working online, in monthly magazines and daily news coverage. Nick Savvides began his journalistic career working as a freelance from his flat in central London, and has since worked in Athens, while also writing for some major publications including The Observer, The European, Daily Express and Thomson Reuters. 

Most recently Nick joined The Loadstar as the publication’s news editor to develop the profile of the publication, increase its readership and to build a team that will market, sell and report on supply chain issues and container shipping news. 

This was a similar brief to his time at ci-online, the online publication for Containerisation International and Container News. During his time at ci-online Nich developed a team of freelancers and full-time employees increasing its readership substantially. He then moved to International Freighting Weekly, a sister publication, IFW also focused on container shipping, rail and trucking and ports. Both publications were published by Informa. 

Following his spell at Informa Nick joined Reed’s chemical reporting team, ICIS, as the chemical tanker reporter. While at ICIS he also reported on the chemical industry and spent some time on the oil & gas desk. 

Nick has also worked for a time at Lloyd’s Register, which has an energy division, and his role was writing their technical magazine, before again becoming a journalist at The Naval Architect for the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. After eight successful years at RINA, he joined Fairplay, which published a fortnightly magazine and daily news on the website.

Nick's time at Fairplay saw him win the Seahorse Club Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year 2018 awards.

After Fairplay closed, Nick joined an online US start-up called FreightWaves. 

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