British company Coldharbour will be exhibiting their unique inert-gas ballast water management system, which thanks to its lack of filtration and complete independence of ballast pumps or lines is immune to many of the problems associated with...

The proven capabilities of Alfa Laval PureBallast – which include operation in fresh, brackish or marine water and in low-clarity water with just 42% UV transmittance – are now available to significantly smaller vessels. Alfa Laval’s ballast water...

It is tough being green, because you get precious little thanks for your effort and endless demands to be even greener, from all the self-serving environmental groups that snipe from the sidelines.

IMO secretary-general Koji Sekimizu says he is deeply concerned over the “disappointingly slow” rate of ratifications for the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention.

  Fednav Limited, the largest Canadian operator of international ships in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system, today announced an order for 12 ballast water treatment systems to equip its ships currently under construction. This makes...

At a summit on ballast water management last week in Athens the discussions can be summed up in four words, "certainty, challenge, cost, confusion".

Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) specialist Optimarin of Norway and ship engineering and installations firm Goltens have signed a non-exclusive worldwide agreement covering the retrofitting of Optimarin’s Ballast System (OBS).

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) will no longer actively discourage the ratification of the Ballast Water Management Convention, since the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) agreed to address industry concerns over the...

With regulatory deadlines looming, it is becoming more evident there is uncertainty among shipowners and manufacturers about the "solutions" being developed to meet the demands of these regulations being driven by environmental concerns.

It may have taken almost three years, the efforts of almost the entire shipping industry, but member states of IMO finally agreed last month to revise the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention.