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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION to the guidelines you are going to have approvals, that it will live up to the con- The Waiting Game Continues U.S. compliance, is that system testing multiple variations on how certain as- vention,” said Maersk’s Wredstrom. Still, ship owners know that invasive requires a minimum of 18 months to two pects of those guidelines are interpreted. And yet the skepticism about whether organisms must be stopped, and they are years (and at a cost of $1M to $2M to the

Here [the U.S.] you have regulations existing G8-tested systems will indeed anxious to cross compliance off their vendors, according to some estimates.) and one entity reviewing. It’s going to live up to the IMO convention is such regulatory to-do list. But the already Once the testing is done, the labs have to be very consistent,” promises the Coast that some ship owners are convinced interminable waiting period is about to package up the results for delivery to the

Guard Commander. that there are no working, or trustwor- get longer. Despite the much bandied Coast Guard, which will then review the

That’s what the industry is counting thy, systems on the market today. This is about estimate that the U.S. Coast Guard data before issuing approvals. And de- on. “If we install a $2M system per ship, re? ected in the decision by some out? ts will start issuing approved systems by pending on how much time is involved, we expect it to meet the demands of the to take delivery of new builds with no mid-2015, the reality, says the man who that could push the availability of U.S.

IMO and U.S. Coast Guard. If you buy BWMS – just space reserved for a future should know, is it will probably be mid- approved systems into an industry pa- a car that full? lls all the requirements installation. to late 2016 before that happens. tience busting 2017. for emmissions, you would not expect to “The existing technology is not ? t for The reason, says Thomas Stevens, Worse, there are only 10-12 products in have to have extra equipment to montior purpose,” according to GasLog’s West- technical manager at NSF International, the testing cycle, according to Stevens, this. If we invest this kind of money, we garth. one of two independent labs contracted USCG CMDR Allain and Intertanko, expect that when the system got all those by the Coast Guard to test BWMS for which actually surveyed vendors on

Right: Shipyards around the world, including Damen Ship

Repair in Rotterdam, anticipate a healthy and prolonged in? ux of business to re-? t the world’s ? eet with new Ballast Water

Management Systems.

Below: Artist impression of retro? t design.

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