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 ...

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Ballast water sample. Image courtesy SGS. After much discussion and three rounds of votes, text for the interim guidance for ships ballasting in challenging, high sediment water was finally approved ...

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 ...

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 ...