MEPC at its fifty third session adopted guidelines for ballast water management equivalence, guidelines for ballast water exchange, guidelines for ballast water management systems, guidelines for ballast water management and the development of ballast water management plans, and the procedure for approval of ballast water management systems that make use of active substances (see IMO document MEPC 53 WP.16).

Procedures for dealing with ballast water include exchange of ballast at sea and discharge at reception facilities.

Harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water

(g) Harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water

So quite often you load water for ballast.

Throwing overboard, as ballast, to change our direction.

Because when tankers carry oil they have to have ballast at some point, so when they're empty, they have the ballast water in there.

Well, in a balloon it's easy, we have ballast.

And when we drop the ballast overboard we climb.

Control of harmful organisms and pathogens in ballast water

All right. Soon as I take on some ballast.

It also established a ballast water review group to determine whether appropriate technologies are available to achieve the ballast water performance standard required under regulation D 2.

They ended up swimming through ballast water that had oil in it.

When they come back, they actually dump this oily ballast water into the ocean.

We tried in the water without any skin or ballast just to see how it works.

No, the pioneer is the one who allows himself to throw overboard a lot of ballast.

356. It is estimated that about 10 billion tonnes of ballast water is transferred each year.

Tonnes of the Class A drug were crammed in the ship's ballast tank when it was raided

Discharged ballast water is said to be the most prominent medium for transferring new or alien species.

As ships travel faster and faster, the survival rates of species carried in ballast tanks has increased.

The question I leave you with now is which is the ballast you would like to throw overboard?

It's really a question of the system, how the ship was loaded, the ballast and many other things.

52. Further calls upon States to accelerate the development of measures to address the problem of invasive alien species in ballast water, and urges the International Maritime Organization to finalize the International Convention on the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments

That's when you throw out all the ballast, all the certainties, in order to adapt to the new situation.

The introduction of non native species or diseases, including from ballast water and hull fouling, is a global concern.

Concrete

Concrete.

IMO adopted the new Guidelines for Ships Operating in Arctic Ice Covered Water in 2002, and a new convention to prevent the potentially devastating effects of alien invasive species in ballast water, the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, in February 2004.

358. Recommendations in the Guidelines for dealing with the problem, including ways to reduce the chances of taking harmful organisms on board, include informing local agents and or ships of areas and situations where uptake of ballast water should be minimized, such as areas with known populations of harmful pathogens advising ships to avoid loading ballast water in very shallow water or in areas where propellers may stir up sediment and avoiding the unnecessary discharge of ballast.

362. Inadequate reception facilities for dirty ballast water, waste oil and garbage present a serious worldwide problem for the shipping industry.

Concrete example.

Concrete achievements.

Concrete objectives

THE CONCRETE REALITY.

THE CONCRETE REALITY.

A concrete instrument.

A concrete example.

Let's make it concrete.

Alien species once established are very difficult, if not impossible to eradicate. 244. IMO has been addressing the problem of the introduction of unwanted aquatic organisms and pathogens through the discharge of ships apos ballast water (see paras. 303 306). Discharge of ballast water is said to be the most prominent media for transferring new or alien species.

Appendix 2 of the Guidelines provides guidance on the safety aspects of ballast water exchange at sea (see also A 52 487, paras. 324 325).

Mrs. PENSADO MORENO (Mexico) said that her delegation could agree to the replacement of the words concrete measures in paragraph (e) by concrete recommendations or possibly concrete proposals .

It's clear that it's not easy to know which ballast to drop and which altitude to take. Sometime we need friends, family members or a psychiatrist.

What is the concrete reality?

What is the concrete reality?

(i) Recreation court concrete base