Ballast Water Management – Why does it matter? Hannah Freeman WWT: ‘Last week Finland ratified the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) Ballast Water Management Convention. The 52nd contracting party tipped the target of 35% world shipping tonnage and triggered entry into force by September 2017. We’ve been waiting a long time for this, as the convention […]
The IMO Ballast Water Convention is on the eve of entry into force. With Indonesia, Morocco and Ghana recently ratifying convention, it is expected that the world is within 1% of reaching the required 35% Global Tonnage remaining to be signed. Senior industry officials are suggesting that the convention is imminent. Once ratified, ship owners […]
At Coastal Futures 2016 Roger Lankester highlighted the slowness of UK Government to ratify the Ballast Water Convention The Ballast water Convention is a major step forward towards the control of aquatic alien species distributed around the world in the ballast water of shipping. However, it is yet to be ratified and the UK Government […]