Resumen de Ballast water management convention and turkish shipping perspective
The introduction of invasive marine species into a new environment by ballast water attached to ship hulls has been identified as one of the four greatest threats to the world’s oceans. Ballast is any material used to add weight to balance an object. Ballast water is water carried by ships to ensure stability, trim, and structural integrity. Shipping moves over 80% of the world’s commodities and transfers approximately 3 to 5 billion tons of ballast water internationally each year. A similar volume may also be transferred domestically within countries and regions each year. Ballast water is absolutely essential to the safe and efficient operation of modern shipping, providing balance and stability to un-laden ships. However, it may also pose a serious ecological, economic, and health threat to the marine environment. Ballast water management means mechanical, physical, chemical, and biological processes, either singularly or in combination, to remove, render harmless, or avoid the uptake or discharge of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens within ballast water and sediments. In this study author discussed ballast water management convention, entry in force date, affection of the World and Turkish Shipping Sector. Analyzing of advantage and disadvantage of new convention at shipping sector.
