Ballast Water Management

The recovery of the offshore shipping segment is playing a key role in driving the revenues of ballast water treatment (BWT) specialist Optimarin.

One of the newest ballast water management systems on the market is aiming to make a splash in the high ballast dependent market.

US-based Ecochlor has won a contract to supply seven Euronav Suezmax and VLCC tankers with a ballast water management system (BWMS).

French UV-based treatment company, BIO-UV Group, has secured a contract to retrofit a BIO-SEA ballast water treatment system (BWTS) to a 28,890 tonne cruise ship.

Turkish Shipowners Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) Group has signed a fleet agreement, valued at SEK210 million (USD22.2 million), for Alfa Laval to supply PureBallast 3 systems to around 228 vessels on behalf…

A ballast water management system (BWMS) manufactured by DESMI Ocean Guard has received amended US Coast Guard (USCG) type approval with just two hours minimum hold time restriction in US waters.

Evac’s Evac Evolution has become the latest system to be type approved under revised IMO guidelines.

Desmi Ocean Guard, the ballast water management system (BWMS) supplier, has signed a frame agreements with Sea Trade, a France-based tanker operator, for the installation of the CompactClean solution on its fleet…

The US Coastguard has awarded type approval to technology group Wärtsilä for its Aquarius UV ballast water management system (BWMS). Wärtsilä is the first manufacturer able to offer two USCG Type Approved…

Norwegian ship design company Havyard has recently taken full ownership of ballast water treatment system MMC Green Technology, as part of a deal that has seen it divest its seafood handling division,…