Ballast Water Management

Ballast Water

Ballast water is essential to control trim, list, draught, stability or stresses of the ship.

However, ballast water may contain aquatic organisms or pathogens which, if introduced into the sea including estuaries, or into fresh water courses, may create hazards to the environment, human health, property or resources, impair biological diversity or interfere with established species.

In order to reduce the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens in ships' ballast water, the IMO ballast water Guidelines have been published and the new IMO ballast water Resolution MEPC.127(53) is available.

The resolution has been adopted by a handful Governments and it is just a matter of time until the resolution becomes mandatory. Today it is already mandatory to have an approved plan onboard ships entering the territory of some countries.

MariTerm AB assists you in the development of user friendly Ballast Water Management Plans ( BWMP ) based on our own templates.

Further Information

For further information please contact Peter Andersson telephone +46 42 33 31 00, telefax +46 42 33 31 02.