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

Making good the loss has left us in rather low 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.

Most of these economies were suffering a loss of their export markets to low wage Asia. A decade of wage growth exceeding productivity gains led to real appreciation, loss of competitiveness, and large current account deficits.

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.

One of the factors leading to low rations in August was the loss of early crops of wheat and barley caused by heavy floods.

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.

The loss. The loss.

The main reason for the loss is the same as the dilemma faced by the global steel industry weak market demand and low utilization rate.

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.

(g) Conduct an assessment of hidden costs of conflicts, covering the cost for wasted time, loss of skilled staff, low morale and productivity and health costs

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.

They accumulate millions by taking loss after loss.

The USD 112,600,000 amount for the loss of tangible business property was re allocated as follows business general assets, loss of cash, loss of stock, loss of raw materials, pre paid expenses, loss of profits on contracts, loss of business income over five years and loss of goodwill.

Loss

Loss?

loss of a commission is not loss of life.

And the CEA goes further, estimating that conflicted investment advice leads to a one percentage point drop in return. In today's low interest rate environment, that's a huge potential loss.

(b) Schedule (permanent disfigurement or permanent loss of member or function) Loss or total loss of use Amount

The pessimists believe that there has been a large decline in the will to invest, something like the loss of animal spirits described by Keynes. Even with very low interest rates, according to this view, investment demand will remain low, and therefore aggregate demand will remain insufficient.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

... Big loss!

Sputnik wasn't a technical loss, but it was a prestige loss.