Lloyd’s Register issues new Ballast Water Treatment Technology guide

The latest Lloyd’s Register guide to Ballast Water Treatment Technology is now available. This follows the success of last year’s guide, the first of its kind. This updated version provides further independent and impartial descriptions and appraisals of commercially available and developing technologies for ballast water treatment. The publication, which will be available at this [...]


Ballast water discharges in the US - Update

Operational discharges of ballast water, deck run off, bilge water, grey water and so on have for many years been regulated in the United States by the Clean Water Act (CWA).  Since 1973 shipowners have benefited from a general exemption granted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which allowed ships to make normal operational [...]


Ballast water discharges in the US.

Operational discharges of ballast water, deck run off, bilge water, grey water and so on have for many years been regulated in the United States by the Clean Water Act (CWA).  Since 1973 shipowners have benefited from a general exemption granted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which allowed ships to make normal operational [...]