Zagreb, Croatia has undertaken training activities to help implement the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, which will enter into force on September 8, 2017.
Under the IMO’s GloBallast project, which aims to help implement the Convention, training activities are to be carried out in Zagreb. Seminars to look at risk assessment and give updates on the implementation status of the Convention by all stakeholders involved was carried out with more than 100 international participants and speakers.
This first Croatia-GloBallast National Global Industry Alliance (GIA) Seminar was organised by GloBallast, the GIA, the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure of Croatia and the Croatian Shipowners Association – CSA Mare Nostrum.
In addition, Port Biological Baseline Surveys, which are inventories of marine life in and around commercial ports, were also carried out.
Marine biologists, Port State Control Officers and maritime authorities from Croatia, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan and Nigeria are discussing issues including exemptions, ship targeting for compliance monitoring and enforcement and the development of decision support systems.
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