Ballast water is freshwater or ocean water stored in a ship's hull to provide stability and improve maneuverability during a voyage. When the ship reaches its destination, the ballast is emptied into ...

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 ...

The discharge of ballast water used to balance a ship is a real man-bites-dog story. This is an issue where environmental groups, public health organizations, businesses, trade associations, tribes, ...

As the U.S. Coast Guard tightens its BWTS compliance rules and more systems are approved, there are still many unanswered questions for operators finally looking to comply. It’s no secret among marine ...

Ships that transport goods around the world are carrying some dangerous stowaways. Tiny organisms travel from port to port in a ship's ballast water. And some of them have become invasive species, ...

Stony coral disease has afflicted nearly half Florida's reef-building corals and has now spread beyond the 300-mile long reef tract to the eastern Caribbean and south to Mexico and Belize. Scientists ...

The National Inland Waterways Authority has identified ballast water as the major cause of water hyacinth infestation on Nigerian waterways. The Lagos Area Manager of NIWA, Sarat Braimah, stated this ...

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday ended years of stalemate by giving final approval to a bill that will regulate ships' ballast nationwide and let Great Lakes states, as a group, add a more protective ...

Michigan would drop its own stringent ballast water discharge rules and adopt federal regulations for oceangoing freighters that transport goods in the Great Lakes under legislation approved this week ...