Belgium To Spot Check Ships for BWMC Compliance

Belgium has become one of the first European nations to enforce the mandate for IMO Ballast Water Management Convention.
The Belgian government has selected Chelsea Technologies, a Sonardyne company, to provide benchmark portable testing for compliance with the ballast water standards.
Chelsea Technologies’ FastBallast portable ballast water analyzer has been chosen and will conduct spot checks on an indicative sampling of vessels arriving in Belgian ports.
FastBallast uses a statistical...