Ship ballast water and their hulls are two excellent vectors for aquatic fauna and flora to traverse the oceans and become invasive species in new habitats.

Additionally a fouled hull of a ship is an expense and another environmental threat in that is creates extra drag through the water requiring more engine power and therefore more emissions to be emitted. A clean hull is therefore a hull that is not adding any additional greenhouses gases into the atmosphere while also reducing the risks of invasive species that can have damaging ecological and economical impacts.

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