OceanSaver announced that Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) has ordered ballast water management (BWM) systems for six VLCCs thus lifting the company’s order book to approximately NOK 280 million. The DSIC VLCC contract follows recent OceanSaver BWM system orders with Hyundai Heavy Industries for two Suezmax crude-oil tankers and six VLCCs at the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company. (more…)

Having six to ten projects already underway, Allweiler AS, Norway and OptiMarin team up to win major future offshore support vessel (OSV) ballast water treatment (BWT) contracts - estimated to peak at NOK 400 million per year for the next four years in the Norwegian offshore shipping market. Some 500 OSVs in the Norwegian market must be retrofitted with BWT systems by 2014. (more…)

Alfa Laval  has received two orders of record size for Alfa Laval PureBallast systems from two leading ship yards in Korea. The systems will be installed on board fourteen vessels built for A.P Møller - Maersk. The total order value is about SEK 80 million and the delivery is scheduled for 2011 and 2012. “These are groundbreaking orders in many ways”, says Lars Renström, President and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group. (more…)

The IMO convention requires vessels to clean their ballast water to prevent the transfer of micro-organisms from one ocean to another via ballast water which is hazardous for local maritime eco-systems. On 22 June in Ridderkerk and 23 June in Assen - both in the Netherlands - DESMI will host a seminar on the forthcoming requirements for ballast water treatment. (more…)

Auramarine Ltd is the world’s leading manufacturer of heavy fuel oil supply systems and other auxiliary units for marine and power station engines. The company is now applying its wide-ranging experience in liquid flows to a new sector that benefits the environment with its Auramarine Crystal Ballast, Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS). (more…)

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has granted the Final Approval of Active Substances to RWO’s ballast water treatment system CleanBallast and thereby noted that the CleanBallast system is safe for the crew, ship and environment. This final approval is one of four major steps necessary for obtaining the full type approval certificate for ballast water treatment systems. As a first step, RWO - part of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies - received the basic approval of active substances from the IMO in October 2006 and subsequently finalised the land-based type approval of CleanBallast in 2007. (more…)