ballast water management and control: a new challenge.ppt
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Ballast Water Management and Control: A New Challenge
GloBallast Programme 2
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: [email protected] or [email protected]
Web: http://globallast.imo.org
GloBallast Programme 9
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: [email protected] or [email protected]
Web: http://globallast.imo.org