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BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

The

BWMS Boom has arrived (really)

With the USCG approval process in full swing, the much-debated, long-awaited ballast water management system market is heating up

Edited By Tom Mulligan, Science & Technology Editor he road from 2004, when the International Maritime Or- ganization (IMO) adopted a new ‘Convention for the

Control and Management of Ship’s Ballast Water and

Sediments,’ to implementation has been neither short, fast nor straight. But it appears the long wait is over – to

T the cheers of manufacturers of approved BWMS and the shipyards that will install them, and to the chagrin of vessel owners that must plow resources into a system that offers no return on investment.

Tom Mulligan, Maritime Reporter & Engineering News’ Science &

Technology correspondent, reports on the latest developments.

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