Re: Bilge water handling at US ports

Sajit:

My understanding is that these regulations are relatively new, and are mostly environmental-based. Ships fill their bilges to maintain ballast level, and often they load in places where the bilge water can be contaminated with either or both of chemical pollution or plants/bacteria/animals that, when released, can (and has done) damage or kill the marine ecology in the area of the port. Many US ports do not have the facility to receive and treat the volume and variety of the potential contaminants that can arrive in in a period of time. I understand that other countries also have these same regulations, with variable enforcement.

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[PipingDesign] Bilge water handling at US ports

This is a question posed by my brother who is a seaman. It being a piping related query, I am posting it here.

Ports in the US where they off-load Crude Oil have stringent regulations that does not allow the ship to discharge ballast / bilge water off the ship. Many of these ports don't have the facility to handle these discharges off the ship, so much so that they have to contain this on board, to find another port which can receive this. Would anyone know, why the enforcement agencies also not require the ports to have these facilities functional.

Sajit

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