Biofouling: The Next Big Compliance Issue

摘要

While IMO's Ballast Water Management Convention aims to stop, the transportation of invasive marine species in ships' ballast tanks, they can also hitchhike on ships' hulls. So the next big environmental compliance issue likely to face the maritime industry could well be biofouling. This one is no real surprise as regulations and legislation are already on the books in some jurisdictions and in 2017 both New Zealand and Fiji barred entry to the bulker DL Marigold for being rife with hull biofouling.