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American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Products and Services Environmental Compliance Ballast Water 2019 Best Practices for Operations of Ballast Water Management Systems Report
The ABS Best Practices for Operation of Ballast Water Management (BWM) Systems Report, offers fresh insight on best practices to overcome key challenges with selecting, installing and operating a BWM system.
First published in 2017, the updated 2019 Report captures the key discussion items, lessons-learned and valuable insight gathered and shared during its global program of industry workshops, shaped by questionnaires from owners and operators of vessels with BWM systems.
Key insights gained during the workshops and captured in the comprehensive questionnaires include:
To form an accurate picture of the current progress with BWM compliance, ABS held global workshops in New Orleans, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Athens, reaching more than 60 shipowners and operators and about 500 vessels. Workshop attendees reviewed the best practices that support successful BWM system integration, exploring both common and unique challenges resulting from different applied technologies, various ship types and sizes, operational and environmental conditions, operating frequency, crew competencies, BWM system maintenance requirements and feasible contingency measures.