JAPAN's MOL has announced the completion of work to
install a ballast water treatment system on the very large crude oil carrier
(VLCC) Libra Trader at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore.
Early this year, the company announced plans to install
the system on a VLCC ahead of IMO installation compulsion. MOL is the first
Japanese shipping company to install such a system for existing VLCC. Keppel
Shipyard has timely delivered the vessel as committed and Libra Trader has
already returned to service, and the ballast water treatment system will be
tested and adjusted during operation.
This is the first installation of its kind to be
completed at Singapore, the centre of repair and conversion industry of the
VLCC.
Ballast water discharged while loading cargo carries
marine organisms around the world and can have a negative impact on marine
ecosystems and biodiversity. This has become a subject of global concern since
the late 1980s. Accordingly, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
adopted the Ballast Water Management Convention in February 2004, and its
ratification is under way.
Source : HKSG.
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