Green Is The Word

摘要

Green issues continued to be at the forefront of discussions within the maritime industry last year. Everything from the developments with ballast water treatments to lower emission vessels and less toxic marine coatings -2008 has seen it all. Delays in bringing the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) ballast water convention into force have largely been due to the testing of technologies; such as determining the types of toxicity test information and criteria that are acceptable on sentinel compounds such as bromide, bromates and carcinogenic trihalomethane (THM).