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show uses satellite communication to re- promoting the advancement of technol- Asked when ballast-water strictures submittals. There are three submittals lay to and pinpoint for owners, operators ogy through the use of independent labs might become universal, he says the right now in the ? nal stage. Eight oth- and port authorities which vessels need that validate (new) systems for world- USCG can only work with its four inde- ers are in the initial stage of review. I’m ballast treatment or treatment help ahead wide use, not just for domestic use in the pendent labs to validate technology. pretty optimistic we will have Coast of entering port. United States. It’s very global. It’s very “We’re working with four independent Guard approved ballast water standards

KraftPowercon offers portable power collaborative.” labs right now to validate (technology) by the IMO conference in November.” for electrostatic ballast systems, where a small portion of ballast water is sent to an electrolysis cell to generate sodium hypochlorite. In these systems, that por- tion of water is mixed with seawater and sent to the ballast tank during ballast- ing or to a neutralizer to lower sodium hypochlorite concentrations during de- ballasting. “The consumption of power has been the problem in the end,” echo Mr. Ander-

TIME TO GIVE sen’s words. When we last spoke, Opti- marine was waiting for type approval of a cable intended to make the installation and powering of its system easier.

SOMETHING

One of KraftPowercon’s cards in the

Ballast Water Championships are its ref- erences, which include coast guard ves- sels and navy submarines. And like Eco- marine’s ? lters, its recti? ers are modular

BACK and small.

Like Ecomarine, KraftPowercon ap- pears to be venturing into a new market: any vessel using an electrolysis system, especially those waiting to enter Shang- hai harbor. KrafPowercon produces its solution in Sweden, India and China, yet the ace up KraftPowercon’s sleave is a satellite signal from its kit that tells its service people and clients when a sec- tion needs to be lifted out and changed, a process any crew can do without special training.

Tense market

All this is sweet news for ? eet owners contemplating compliance and its costs ahead of “enforcement” in January 2016.

Rules extras the Coast Guard appears to be compiling seem to add even more in- security.

“The IMO would mean fewer acro- nyms,” Andersen said. “The USCG might recognize that the IMO is the only way to go. Why wait while we pollute as much as we can.”

Yet, it is understood DNV GL, the Ger- man-Norwegian class society, has been contributing to the USCG’s growing list of ballast water rules. In an interview with Maritime Reporter on the central stage of a Nor-Shipping conference,

Commandant of the USCG Admiral Paul

Zukunft tells us even stricter standards are sought on ballast water and securing

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