Miura BWMS gets closer to USCG type approval
JULY 5, 2017 — Japan’s Miura Co., Ltd. reports that it has successfully completed another major milestone towards acquiring U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) type approval for its HK ballast water management system
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USCG issues fourth BWMS Type Approval
JUNE 12, 2017 — The Coast Guard Marine Safety Center has issued the fourth U.S. Coast Guard Ballast Water Management System Type Approval Certificate to the BalClor system to China’s Sunrui Marine
Evoqua gives SeaCURE BWMS a smaller footprint
MAY 31, 2017 — Warrendale, PA, headquartered Evoqua Water Technologies has remodeled its SeaCURE ballast water management system (BWMS) to provide optimum high-flow rate performance from what is now one of the
Failed to use USCG approved BWMS, faces civil penalty
FEBRUARY 14, 2017 —The Coast Guard has initiated civil penalty proceedings against Hamburg headquartered Vega Reederei GmbH & Co. KG after investigators found that around Jan. 29, 2017, while moored in Tacoma,
Navy looking for own ballast water management system
DECEMBER 15, 2016 — The Navy’s prestigious Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, has just commissioned a new Ballast Water Research Laboratory at its headquarters in West Bethesda, MD. Navy ships are
Wartsila licenses CSSC subsidiary to manufacture BWMS
DECEMBER 13, 2016 — Wärtsilä has signed a manufacturing license agreement with Jiujiang Precision Measuring Technology Research Institute, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), based in Jiujiang, China. The two-way agreement
Liberia offers IMO a way out of a BWMS hole
OCTOBER 21, 2016 — The Liberian Maritime Administration will ask next week’s meeting of IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC70) to allow more time for some to install the ballast water management
Wartsila: We’re ready for IMO BWM Convention
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016 — Wärtsilä says it has proactively planned and developed its range of Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) solutions in anticipation of the ratification of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO)
Maersk Tankers newbuilds to have Wartsila BWMS
AUGUST 31, 2016 — Copenhagen, Denmark, headquartered Maersk Tankers A/S of Denmark has selected Wärtsilä’s Electro Chlorination (EC) Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) for three new 50,000 DWT medium range (MR) tankers
Damen and Evoqua launch “plug and play” BWMS
AUGUST 29, 2016 — Damen Green Solutions and Evoqua Water Technologies will launch a containerized “plug and play” ballast water management system (BWMS) at next month’s SMM event in Hamburg, Germany. The