New and 'revolutionary' features bring ballast water market boost

摘要

Hyde Marine has made changes to its GUARDIAN ballast water treatment system which its senior market manager Mark Riggio describes as "truly revolutionary". The company changed its system in order to acquire US Coast Guard (USCG) type-approval. Mr Riggio explains "We had to increase the power. We did that as beneficially as possible because before that we were the leader in power. Although we had to increase our power, this was at a lower level than most of our competitors as we previously realised power is an issue for container ships because of high reefer loading. During ballasting, you are onloading or offloading containers and usually load reefers first; so there are very high power loads as hundreds of reefer containers are being plugged in. We wanted to address that through the lowest possible power increase. We spent a lot of time coupling our power increase with a change in design philosophy."