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Ballast Water Management

agreement has a global reach. We will would be much like crying over spilt

be strongly promoting Speedy Breedy milk: “We need to get on with dealing
to both our customers and colleagues in with the reality that is ahead of us. In

the maritime industry.”
view of this I am delighted that the
“We are absolutely delighted to be IMO has agreed to extend the

working with Goltens,” said Bactest timetable for fitting ballast water
CEO Annie Brooking. “They have an treatment plants for existing ships,

impressive track record of retrofitting however, I do not think there is enough
ballast water treatment systems and yard capacity to meet this extended

indeed lead the market in this field. timescale.

Bactest will benefit hugely from “BIMCO believes it is grossly unfair
their global sales infrastructure and of regulators to pass legislation

implementing marketing strength.”
requiring standards to be met before
ballast water
the technology to meet those standards Taking a similar stance to the ICS,

has been proven,” he said.
treatment the ship owners’ association BIMCO
systems, will now
has claimed that some of the The ICS has suggested a number

environmental legislation that is in of steps by which IMO Member also help ship owners
place is neither fair nor properly States might address, particularly in demonstrating these

thought out and will impose a huge cost implementation problems associated systems meet the
burden on the shipping industry.
with the Ballast Water Management regulatory standards.

Convention, which has yet to enter Using Speedy Breedy, John Denholm, BIMCO President,

into force.
ship’s crew can test ballast said that in the case of ballast water
water onboard for contamination management, the extra costs involved As previously highlighted in a

in accordance with the D-2 will lead to a number of ships being submission to the MEPC (Marine
performance standard for the scrapped.
Environment Protection Committee),

“Don’t misunderstand me, I am discharge of ballast water, set out by
which was made by ICS in conjunction
the IMO.
committed to the environment: I live in with other international ship owner

Bactest’s flagship product tests the
Scotland which is the land of green organisations, the implementation
trees and clean rivers and I do not think treated ballast water for the presence problems which ICS urgently seeks to

that ship owners should be allowed to of three bacteria address include the lack of robustness
pollute the waters of one part of the set out in the D-2 of the current IMO type-approval

world with micro-organisms from standard – Vibrio process for new treatment equipment,
another part of the world.
cholerae, E. coli and the criteria to be used for sampling

and enterococcus, “But I do not believe that some of ballast water during Port State Control

after which the sample is the legislation that is in place is either inspections.
pasteurised so that it can be fair or properly thought through. ICS believes that the legal changes

safely disposed of as
Let me talk about ballast water needed to make the ballast regime fit
management, when the IMO Ballast for purpose are relatively straight regular waste.

Water Convention comes into force, forward and could be agreed in “We have been
and existing ships are required to principle quickly by IMO Member looking for a

retrofit ballast water management States. The ICS has suggested that the product like Speedy
systems onboard ships, this will impose MEPC might agree a ‘road map’ using Breedy for some

a huge cost for the industry and will the mechanism of an MEPC time to
lead to a number of ships being Resolution which - if agreed - could complement our

scrapped.
make it easier for additional IMO ballast water

Member States to decide to ratify the treatment “Surely a better solution would be
Convention.
business,” said Maarten
to manage the problem through ballast

water exchange and require new ships Jeronimus, Vice President of “If so decided, this Resolution
to be fitted with ballast water treatment Goltens Europe and Managing would provide greater confidence for

plants,” he said.
Director for Goltens Green owners and operators installing
Technologies in The Netherlands. However, Mr Denholm added that treatment equipment, and could help

“With more than 22 stations in the he does not believe there is much point end the current impasse,” said ICS
Goltens network worldwide, this
complaining about this issue, which
Secretary General Peter Hinchliffe.

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