The saltie Federal Welland docked in Superior on Tuesday is a perfect topic for the international discussion on ballast water. It's also a prototype of how the shipping industry is trying to fight ...

Maritech Ltd. signed a sales and distribution agreement with French water microbiology company aqua-tools to meet “significant interest” in onboard ballast water testing from Greek shipowners. The ...

A chemical treatment system thatis designed to kill living organisms in a ship's ballast water and then is rendered nontoxic will be the subject of the first test conducted at the fledgling Great ...

Maritime Environmental Resource Center will no longer conduct Type Approval Certification testing of ballast water management systems. The Maritime Environment Resource Center (MERC) was established ...

The Hyde GUARDIAN-US (Universal Service) completes all required testing under 46CFR162.060 and the new IMO Revised G8 Requirements moving it closer to U.S. Coast Guard Type Approval, another IMO Type ...

The Maritime Environmental Resource Center, headquartered at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, announced this week that it received approval from the U.S. Coast Guard as the first ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - The Environmental Protection Agency failed to properly regulate how ships that sail the Great Lakes discharge ballast water, a practice that is the principal cause of spreading ...

New regulations requiring all ocean-going ships to flush out ballast tanks with saltwater before entering the Saint Lawrence Seaway should help stop the introduction of new invasive species in the ...

HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) - Technicians have used a vessel that hauls passengers to Isle Royale National Park for testing a refined treatment method to rid ships' ballast water of invasive species. Isle ...

Ships that transport goods around the world are carrying some dangerous stowaways. Tiny organisms travel from port to port in a ship's ballast water. And some of them have become invasive species, ...