Ballast water rule fears

Associations of shipbuilders, classification societies and shipowners have expressed serious concern with the obstacles all three groups face as the Ballast Water Management Convention moves closer to ratification, eight years after its text was adopted. At a tripartite meeting in Korea, representatives said it was always going to be challenging to fit ballast water treatment equipment to all of the world’s 70,000 ships. New technologies needed to be explored and developed to treat the volume of water required by ocean going ships as ballast.