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Ballast Water Management and Control: A New Challenge

Ballast Water Management and Control: A New Challenge. Shipping: moves > 80% of World’s commodities, transport capacity will double in the next 20 years, is getting faster and more frequent!. Ballast Water Discharge. Ships are transferring 10 billion tons of ballast water a year.

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Ballast Water Management and Control: A New Challenge

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  1. Ballast Water Management and Control: A New Challenge

  2. Shipping: • moves > 80% of World’s commodities, • transport capacity will double in the next 20 years, • is getting faster and more frequent! GloBallast Programme

  3. Ballast Water Discharge • Ships are transferring 10 billion tons of ballast water a year GloBallast Programme

  4. 7,000 to possibly more than 10,000 different species of microbes, marine plants & animals may be carried in ballast water GloBallast Programme

  5. Impacts • Ecological • New invasion every 9 weeks • Economical • Losses around tens of billion US$ per year globally • Human health • Paralytic poisoning • Cholera outbreaks GloBallast Programme

  6. IMO Response • Ballast Water Working Group under the MEPC • Assembly Resolution A.868(20) • New international legal instrument GloBallast Programme

  7. Six Demonstration Sites / Regions GloBallast Programme

  8. Dalian the GloBallast Demonstration Site for East Asia • Losses for the prawn farming industry. • About 5.5 million tons of ballast water discharged every year. • GloBallast activities in Dalian • Integrated approach with “Blue Bohai Sea” • Working together to protect the East Asian Seas Photo: CSIRO Australia GloBallast Programme

  9. Contacts Programme Coordination Unit Dandu Pughiuc Chief Technical Adviser Steve Raaymakers Technical Adviser Ph: +44 (0)20 7587 3247 or 7587 3251 Fax: +44 (0)20 7587 3261 Email: dpughiuc@imo.org or sraaymak@imo.org Web: http://globallast.imo.org GloBallast Programme

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