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Ecochlor offers BWT systems with USCG

Type Approval for ? ow rates ranging from 500 to 16,200 cubic meters per hour and design op- tions for a wide range of vessel types, including for tankers with hazard- ous areas and bulk carri- ers with gravity discharge ballast tanks.

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Optimarin: BWT orders companies such as Besiktas Shipping, Mark, MOL, Solstad Farstad, and Hapag day’. He noted that there are currently and revenues “rocket” Eureka Shipping, Solvang, Koyo Kaiun Lloyd, amongst others. OBS is fully ap- nine systems with USCG Type Approval

Optimarin said that a recent surge in and Ahrenkiel. proved by both IMO and USCG, with and another six systems with approval new business orders and revenues is in- The company has also consolidated certi? cation through DNV GL, Lloyd’s, pending: “It is worth noting that all dicative of positive developments within its leadership in the retro? t race, with RINA, Bureau Veritas, MLIT Japan, and systems utilize UV or electrochlorina- the BWT market. The Norway-head- about 140 OBSs now installed. Global American Bureau of Shipping. tion technology while Ecochlor is the quartered ? rm, which has now sold close engineering partners Goltens and Zep- only system that uses chemical injec- to 600 of its USCG-approved Optimarin pelin account for the majority of these Market “more crowded every day” tion based on chlorine dioxide. While

Ballast Systems (OBS), has shattered its projects. John Morganti, VP of Sales and Mar- the regulations were proposed more than initial growth forecasts for the year to Current Optimarin customers include keting, Ecochlor said that the ballast a decade ago, there was no rush to put date, with both orders and income up by The Royal Netherlands Navy, Seat- water treatment system market has been these systems on board. Now driven by more than 50 percent year-on-year. ruck, Saga Shipholding, Technip, Gulf- getting ‘more and more crowded every regulatory compliance, shipowners must “2017 was our best ever year in busi- ness, so we honestly didn’t expect to outperform last year’s ? gures so com- prehensively,” said Optimarin CEO Tore

Andersen. “The fact that we’ve done so demonstrates not only the market’s faith in our proven UV technology, compli- ance and business stability, but also that shipowners and operators are now being galvanized into action by the rati? cation of IMO’s Ballast Water Management convention and the need to conform. “This is excellent news for the envi- ronment and a positive development for those of us in the BWT sector that have invested many millions of dollars in test- ing, certifying and bringing our systems to market. As the ? rst company to in- stall a commercial system (18 years ago now), the ? rst to receive USCG approval and the ? rst to offer a ? ve-year parts and servicing guarantee for framework agreements, it’s gratifying to see that the ? rm foundations we’ve laid down can now really be built upon.”

Optimarin sold more than 60 OBSs last year and has already signed contracts in 2018 to supply another 50. Recent agree- ments span a diverse array of shipping segments and owners, with orders from www.marinelink.com 85

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