Sentences with phrase «ballast water convention»

Cecilia de Castro, lead author of the review, commented: «This study comes at a pertinent time, providing further evidence to highlight the importance of the IMO Ballast Water Convention, which has recently reached 35 per cent of world merchant shipping tonnage and will enter into force on 8/09/2017.

To come into force, the Ballast Water Convention requires 30 nations to ratify the treaty, which they have — but those nations must hold the registrations for 35 per cent of the world's merchant shipping tonnage.

He noted that it's been 10 years since the international ballast water convention was signed, and it's still not in force.

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There is a separate IMO international convention on management of ballast water — signed in 2004 — that would come into force when ratified by a required number of 30 states.

The UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) is on the verge of entering the Ballast Water Management Convention into force, but this will not happen until 12 months after countries with a combined total of at least 35 % of the World's commercial fleet (measured in gross tonnage) have ratified the Convention.