WWF welcomes the adoption of an international Ballast Water Convention as a step in the right direction to prevent further invasions of marine habiats with alien species, but warns there are worrying ...

Costly Critter: Pictured is the Bythotrephes longimanus, more commonly known as the Spiny Water Flea, a species native to N. Europe and accidentally introduced through ballast water into Lake Huron in ...

WWF is delighted that another regulatory milestone has at last been achieved, after nearly 10 years of sustained advocacy efforts. The entry into force of the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention ...

Action Item: Although the ratification of the IMO’s Ballast Water Convention will not alter U.S. compliance obligations, industry stakeholders must now consider their obligations under international ...

Introduction -- Vessels and Ballast Water -- The Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens with Ballast Water and their Impacts -- Policy and Legal Framework and the Current Status of ...

MINSK, 13 May (BelTA) – Belarus has joined the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, BelTA learned from the National Legal Internet Portal. The ...

Ballast water sample. Image courtesy SGS. After much discussion and three rounds of votes, text for the interim guidance for ships ballasting in challenging, high sediment water was finally approved ...

Abstract: Transportation and translocation of non-native species by ships through ballast water is one of the current issues the shipping industry is trying to address. The Ballast Water Convention is ...

BWTS are an imminent requirement by IMO to prevent the biological unbalance caused by the estimated 12 billion tons of ballast water transported across the seas by ocean-going vessels when their ...