Tuesday, October 25, 2016

BALLAST WATER/BIOFOULING Liberia provides lead with BWMS proposal to IMO

BALLAST WATER/BIOFOULING


Liberia provides lead with BWMS proposal to IMO (10/21/16)<http://www.marinelink.com/news/provides-proposal-liberia417220>

The Liberian Maritime Administration is to introduce a proposal to the meeting of the IMO Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC70) in London on 24 October to allow certain ships additional time beyond 2020 to install adequate ballast water management systems as required under the Ballast Water Management Convention, which comes into force in September 2017. The proposal, says Liberia, would ensure that enough adequate systems and sufficient dockyard space are available…..

Port Director’s View: Set uniform federal standard on ballast water to protect US waterways (10/19/16)<http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/4140793-port-directors-view-set-uniform-federal-standard-ballast-water-protect-us-waterways>


Among the stack of bills in Washington, D.C., awaiting congressional action by the end of the year is a piece of legislation both parties can and should endorse: a long-awaited, common-sense reform to this nation’s ballast water treatment regulations…..

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