The 1,000-foot Great Lakes freighter Indiana Harbor is somewhere on Lake Michigan today, maybe heading back to the Twin Ports to pick up a load of coal or taconite. Deep within the boat, a system is ...

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 ...

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 ...

DESMI announced it is now offering advanced ballast water testing, analysis and evaluation services to help shipowners verify the quality of onboard ballast water to comply with the Ballast Water ...

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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, ...

ABS has announced the launch of its Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) Selection Service to assist designers, shipyards, owners and operators in selecting the solution suited to the unique needs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...