A company established to provide the shipping industry with an innovative environmental technological solution to the ballast water treatment problem almost folded while regulators tweaked and deliberated over international regulation.
Stavanger-based Optimarin developed ultra-violet and filtration technology it believed provided all the answers to the demands of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Ballast Water Management Convention 2006 (BWMC).
A decade later and the convention has still not yet reached the ratification requirement to enter into force that would call on owners to fit such equipment.
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