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BIMCO Urges IMO To Reconsider Draft Sewage Regulation

11 February 2021

Along with other international organizations and member states of IMO, BIMCO has asked the International Maritime Organization to reconsider its new draft sewage regulation.

Together with a number of member states and international organizations, BIMCO has proposed that the IMO should reconsider the direction, in which the amendment of MARPOL Annex IV has taken concerning existing ships.

BIMCO has participated in an intersessional correspondence group that has been working on preparing draft...

https://mfame.guru/bimco-urges-imo-to-reconsider-draft-sewage-regulation/

Researchers Discover COVID-19 Concentrations in Paris Sewage Points!

3 May 2020

Researchers have been sampling sewage across greater Paris for more than 1 month.
They have detected a rise and fall in novel coronavirus concentrations.
They correspond to the shape of the COVID-19 outbreak in the region.
The new study is the first technique to pick up a sharp rise in viral concentrations in sewage.
Sewers offer near–real-time outbreak data.
Polymerase chain reaction testing identifies fragments of RNA from SARS-CoV-2.
This can help develop a national COVID-19 monitoring...

http://mfame.guru/researchers-discover-covid-19-concentrations-in-paris-sewage-points/

Norway considers tightening rules for sewage discharges along the coast

1 November 2019

Norway is working on a new regulation, to prevent the discharge of sewage, and contribute to less sewage discharge along the Norwegian coast. The government aspires to have the new rules in place by March 1, 2020.

The purpose of the law is to prevent the discharge of sewage, and contribute to less sewage discharge along the Norwegian coast, especially in inland waters with less electricity and less water exchange.

Commenting on the new rules, Bjørn E. Pedersen, Department Director of the...

https://safety4sea.com/norway-considers-tightening-rules-for-sewage-discharges-along-the-coast/

Sewage treatment plant defects a common item for PSC detentions for Singapore ships

16 April 2019

MPA Singapore informs about an increase in Port State Control (PSC) detentions experienced by Singapore ships since the beginning of 2019. Namely, it has been noticed that defects regarding the ship’s sewage treatment plant are increasingly becoming a common deficiency that cause ships to be detained by PSC.

The deficiency about defects of the ship’s sewage treatment plant is the single most common PSC detainable deficiency experienced by Singapore ships in this year to date. The deficiencies...

https://safety4sea.com/sewage-treatment-plant-defects-a-common-item-for-psc-detentions-for-singapore-ships/

Northern Bering sea and Bering Strait threatened by increasing ship waste

18 November 2018

The northern Bering Sea and Bering Strait region has been an ecological, cultural, and economic center for Yup’ik, Cup’ik, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, and Inupiaq peoples for centuries. Yet, recently, a combination of factors, including less sea ice and more trade and resource development, has resulted to an increased vessel traffic in the region led by huge cargo vessels, tugs, and research vessels, and is expected to continue growing.

Most of these vessels provide information on people, science...

https://safety4sea.com/northern-bering-sea-and-bering-strait-threatened-by-increasing-ship-waste/

Sewage Treatment Plant on Ships Explained

29 October 2018

Discarding sewage produced onboard on a ship is one of the few tasks on a ship which should be taken utmost care of if one wants to save him and his shipping company from heavy fine. The sewage generated on the ship cannot be stored on the ship for a very long time and it, for this reason, it has to be discharged into the sea.

Though sewage can be discharged into the sea, we cannot discharge it directly overboard as there are some regulations regarding discharging of sewage that needs to be...

https://www.marineinsight.com/tech/sewage-treatment-plant/