Ballast water sediment management in ports

Maglić, Lovro; Frančić, Vlado; Zec, Damir; David, Matej

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.09.065

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“…Due to the nature of the sediments, management consists of several stages, processes and procedures [43]. The best strategy for ballast management is avoiding sediment uptake with the ballast water.…”

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Determination of Sediment Accumulation Pattern in a Double Bottom Ballast Tank Model

Güney¹,

Danışman²,

Bozkurtoğlu³

et al. 2018

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SummaryBallast tank sediments may cause several problems in a wide range changing from environmental to economical. Its contribution to biological invasion is an important concern. Thus, the sediment management is included as an integral component of the "The International Convention on the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments". The reduction of the amount of the sediment to be removed is of great importance for management issues. Therefore, the convention underlines that ships should be designed and constructed with a view to minimize the uptake and undesirable entrapment of sediments and facilitate removal of sediments. Design and construction solutions can effectively be developed after determination of the problem areas. In this study, sediment accumulation pattern and problem areas in the ballast tank model of a longitudinally framed double bottom tanker is determined. The problem areas are found to be at the mid-section of the tank closer to the centre girder.

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Determination of Sediment Accumulation Pattern in a Double Bottom Ballast Tank Model

Güney¹,

Danışman²,

Bozkurtoğlu³

et al. 2018

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“…The BWM Convention includes provision of adequate reception facilities for sediment, removed from ballast tanks for cleaning or repair purposes, which enable safe sediment disposal -without any damage to environment, human health, property or resources. In the paper, Ballast water sediment management in ports, the possible effects of existing ballast tank sediment management routine in ports were estimated through an examination of respective legal frameworks from different states and the operational modes of selected Adriatic shipyards (Maglić et al, 2019). The bulk of sediment is introduced into the tank during ballasting operations, accumulation of various by-products during ballasting, corrosion and deterioration of the protective coating (Maglić et al, 2016).…”

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Vulnerability to bioinvasions: Current status, risk assessment and management of ballast water through a regional approach – the Adriatic Sea

David

Magaletti

Kraus

et al. 2019

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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The United Nations recognised the transfer of invasive species across natural barriers as one of the greatest pressures to the world's oceans and seas. The BWM Convention sets the global standards on ballast water management (BWM) requirements, while recognising that regional and local specifics have to be considered for its effective implementation. In the Adriatic Sea cross-border activities were conducted to provide for essential information/data and tools to support a regionally coordinated implementation of the BWM Convention. This special issue contains 18 publications that include results and recommendations from studying the ballast water and management issues through sampling of ballast water on vessels, risk assessment for exemptions and BWM, biological and chemical port baseline surveys and monitoring conducted in ports along the Adriatic Sea coast, oceanographic conditions, ballast water sediment issues and their management in ports, and the implementation options of the BWM Convention through the Adriatic States' environmental law and institutions cooperation. Essential data and tools to support a regional approach in the implementation of the BWM Convention were provided, and are therefore available to the administrations of the Adriatic countries to enable protection of the Adriatic Sea environment, human health property and resources from negative impacts of ballast water being discharged in the area. Data, approaches and tools provided here may be helpful in any other region to support an effective BWM Convention implementation.

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“…A ship’s ballast tanks carrying ballast water and sediments were proved to be responsible for the dispersal of toxic phytoplankton worldwide [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. Recently, a large number of studies have focused on the introduction potency of ballast sediments, which can be accumulated in the bottom of the tanks and are difficult to be washed off [ 8 , 9 , 10 ]. For instance, tens to hundreds of tons of fine mud with a mean particle size of <20 μm were found in tanks, with the thickness ranging from several centimeters to >30 cm [ 11 ].…”

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Pseudocochlodinium profundisulcus Resting Cysts Detected in the Ballast Tank Sediment of Ships Arriving in the Ports of China and North America and the Implications in the Species’ Geographic Distribution and Possible Invasion

Shang

Zhai

Liu

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Over the past several decades, much attention has been focused on the dispersal of aquatic nonindigenous species via ballast tanks of shipping vessels worldwide. The recently reclassified dinoflagellate Pseudocochlodinium profundisulcus (previously identified as Cochlodinium sp., Cochlodinium geminatum, or Polykrikos geminatus) was not reported in China until 2006. However, algal blooming events caused by this organism have been reported almost every year since then in the Pearl River Estuary and its adjacent areas in China. Whether P. profundisulcus is an indigenous or an invasive species has thus become an ecological question of great scientific and practical significance. In this study, we collected the sediments from ballast tanks of ships arriving in the ports of China and North America and characterized dinoflagellate resting cysts via a combined approach. We germinated two dark brownish cysts from the tank of an international ship (Vessel A) arriving at the Jiangyin Port (China) into vegetative cells and identified them as P. profundisulcus by light and scanning electron microscopy and phylogenetic analyses for partial LSU rDNA sequences. We also identified P. profundisulcus cyst from the ballast tank sediment of a ship (Vessel B) arriving in the port of North America via single-cyst PCR and cloning sequencing, which indicated that this species could be transported as resting cyst via ship. Since phylogenetic analyses based on partial LSU rDNA sequences could not differentiate all sequences among our cysts from those deposited in the NCBI database into sub-groups, all populations from China, Australia, Japan, and the original sources from which the cysts in the two vessels arrived in China and North America were carried over appeared to share a very recent common ancestor, and the species may have experienced a worldwide expansion recently. These results indicate that P. profundisulcus cysts may have been extensively transferred to many regions of the world via ships’ ballast tank sediments. While our work provides an exemplary case for both the feasibility and complexity (in tracking the source) of the bio-invasion risk via the transport of live resting cysts by ship’s ballast tanks, it also points out an orientation for future investigation.

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Ballast water sediment management in ports

Cited by 27 publications

References 24 publications

Determination of Sediment Accumulation Pattern in a Double Bottom Ballast Tank Model

Determination of Sediment Accumulation Pattern in a Double Bottom Ballast Tank Model

Vulnerability to bioinvasions: Current status, risk assessment and management of ballast water through a regional approach – the Adriatic Sea

Pseudocochlodinium profundisulcus Resting Cysts Detected in the Ballast Tank Sediment of Ships Arriving in the Ports of China and North America and the Implications in the Species’ Geographic Distribution and Possible Invasion

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