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Tanker Owners Risk Facing Hidden BWMS Compliance Issues

  • 210 Anglo-Eastern ships are fitted with one of 19 different models of BWMS.
  • Every single one exhibited some issues during the first year of use.
  • A shipowner or operator investing substantial sums in a BWMS expects to be compliant.
  • The most pressing concern may be human error.
  • As systems age and go through onboard planned maintenance regimes, the risk of BWMS failures increase.

According to an article published in Riviera Maritime Media, Chelsea Technologies marine sales manager Emma Johnson...

https://mfame.guru/tanker-owners-risk-facing-hidden-bwms-compliance-issues/

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...

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