Denmark plans to draw the ferry exemptions IMO ballast water management requirements

As a result of measures to deal with upcoming environmental regulations in recent years, Danish shipping companies to invest billions of kroner for green technologies, and is preparing to greater investment.

Since the convention will cover all international shipping routes, & nbsp; therefore includes, for example, Denmark and Sweden, Helsingborg Helsingor between 4 km ferry routes. Danish Shipowners' Association is responsible for ballast water management executives believe that the regulations on long-haul international routes makes sense, but the ferry traffic and other small-scale local shipping and otherwise.

The director claims that there is a risk to millions of kroner per vessel impose financial burden. The consequence may be the ferry had to purify ballast water and investment in equipment, in fact, difficult to imagine in such a short distance spread of invasive species. The Convention includes a number of potential terms, but after careful examination revealed unrealistic, & nbsp; its provisions relating to local shipping too restrictive.

Danish maritime authorities and the Danish Shipowners' Association natural bodies plus ferry agency is now working with the international contact IMO, to discuss the possibility of obtaining exemption from local shipping on this October Haihuan agenda.