Sunday, March 9, 2008

Global Ballast Water Management Convention

Newsbit on the IMO's "New Convention" of interest to worldwide shipping.

All ships, including those built before 2009, will be required to have a system that is compliant to the Convention rules by as early as 2009.

The full text of the Convention is available to purchase from IMO www.imo.org (choose 'Publications', 'Purchase IMO Publications Here', in field box enter 'I620M'.)

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