Jamaica aims to ratify Ballast Water Management Convention

摘要

Potentially damaging effects of bailast water on sensitive marine environments takes centre stage tomorrow at an important Caribbean Conference on the subject. Bertrand Smith, The Maritime Authority of Jamaica's Director of Legal Affairs, will deliver a presentation on the implications of ratifying the IMO's Ballast Water Management Convention 2004. Mr Smith chairs the 25-country task force on the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments in the Wider Caribbean Region. The presentation will highlight the main features of the Ballast Water Management Convention as well as the legislative and policy Steps being taken by Jamaica's NationalTask Force, chaired by the Maritime Authority, to give full and proper ef-fect to the Convention to which Jamaica expects to accede during 2011.