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Ballast Water Management and Control: A New Challenge

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Shipping:

• moves > 80% of World’s commodities,

• transport capacity will double in the next 20 years,

• is getting faster and more frequent!

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Ballast Water Discharge

• Ships are transferring 10 billion tons of ballast water a year

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7,000 to possibly more than 10,000 different species of microbes, marine plants & animals may be carried in ballast water

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Impacts

• Ecological– New invasion every 9 weeks

• Economical– Losses around tens of billion US$ per year

globally

• Human health– Paralytic poisoning– Cholera outbreaks

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IMO Response

• Ballast Water Working Group under the MEPC

• Assembly Resolution A.868(20)

• New international legal instrument

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Six Demonstration Sites / Regions

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Dalian the GloBallast Demonstration Site for East Asia• Losses for the prawn

farming industry.• About 5.5 million tons

of ballast water discharged every year.

• GloBallast activities in Dalian

• Integrated approach with “Blue Bohai Sea”

• Working together to protect the East Asian Seas

Photo: CSIRO Australia

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ContactsProgramme Coordination Unit

Dandu Pughiuc

Chief Technical Adviser

Steve Raaymakers

Technical Adviser

Ph: +44 (0)20 7587 3247 or 7587 3251

Fax: +44 (0)20 7587 3261

Email: dpughiuc@imo.org or sraaymak@imo.org

Web: http://globallast.imo.org