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Self-Powered Sensors for Environmental Monitoring. [PDF]

open access: yesNanomaterials (Basel)
Yang X   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Challenges in global ballast water management

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2004
Ballast water management is a complex issue raising the challenge of merging international regulations, ship's specific configurations along with ecological conservation. This complexity is illustrated in this paper by considering ballast water volume, discharge frequency, ship safety and operational issues aligned with regional characteristics to ...
Rolf Skjong
exaly   +3 more sources

A review of developments in ballast water management

Environmental Reviews, 2014
Transportation and translocation of non-native species by ships through ballast water is one of the current issues the shipping industry is trying to address. The Ballast Water Convention is nearing full ratification after which treatment of ballast water will become mandatory for most of the trading merchant vessel categories.
Omar Yaakob   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Ballast water sediment management in ports

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
In order to estimate the possible effects of existing ballast tank sediment management routine in ports the respective legal framework from different states was examined and the operational modes of selected Adriatic shipyards was analysed. The goal was to determine if the States' administration and ports' management are aware of risks which sediments ...
Maglić, Lovro   +3 more
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Ballast Water: Problems and Management

2019
Harmful species transfers undoubtedly present one of the strongest man-made threats to the aquatic world. For safe operations, vessels essentially depend on ballast water in which they usually carry several species so that each vessel has the potential to transport that species and introduce it to a new area. Species are not present only in the ballast
Stephan Gollasch, Matej David
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Ballast Water Management Under the Ballast Water Management Convention

2014
The importance of ballast water as a vector for moving non-indigenous species was initially addressed in a 1973 International Maritime Organization (IMO) resolution. Subsequently IMO worked towards the finalization of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention) which was adopted in ...
Matej David   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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