In order to ensure compliance with the IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention, the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is now in the process of installing Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) on all of its 40 deep sea oceangoing vessels.
In June 2021, Swarna Kaveri, a LR1 type product tanker, became the first vessel in SCI’s fleet to be retrofitted with an ultra violet type BWTS while the vessel was at Colombo Dry Dock. The fitting of BWTS on other vessels is now in progress and will be...
https://www.themaritimestandard.com/sci-embarks-on-bwts-retrofits/