Hyde Marine Launches New Webinar Series

Hyde Marine is launching a multi-part Webinar Series for ship owners and operators that will focus on compliance with IMO Convention and USCG Regulations.

The webinar series will provide education for technical directors/managers, ship owners, operators, naval architects and port/harbor authorities from Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Americas about proper compliance with International Maritime Organization (IMO) and United States Coast Guard (USCG) ballast water treatment regulations.

The first one-hour webinar entitled, “Understanding Misconceptions About the IMO & USCG Ballast Water Regulations,” will be conducted April 15, 2014, 9 a.m. (GMT) and 2 p.m. (EST), and led by Mark Riggio, Product Manager, Hyde Marine.

Webinar content will focus on critical areas, including:

IMO Convention modifications and revised implementation timeline
Clarification of USCG Ballast Water Management requirements
USCG and Environmental Protection Agency Enforcement
Advantages to installing an AMS approved system now
Road to USCG Type Approval
Validity of Ultraviolet (UV) Systems in the U.S.

In addition to the April 15 webinar, Hyde Marine’s 2014 webinar series will also include, “Guide to Ballast Water Retrofits,” and “Lessons Learned: Ballast Water Installations.”

Background:

In 2004, the IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWMC), which requires ships to conduct a ballast water exchange or to meet concentration-based ballast water discharge standards at ports with ballast tanks 99.99% free of living organisms and pathogens.

The enforcement of the USCG’s final ballast water regulation, which began in December 2013, along with the pending ratification of the IMO BWM Convention, places ship owners on a strict timeline to install proven BWT technology to bring their vessels into compliance.