Ballast coaching classes

The Ministry of Communications, in cooperation with the Riyadh Memorandum of Understanding, organized a regional workshop, entitled (Ballast Water Management Agreement), in which a number of marine specialists from the concerned authorities in the country participated, in addition to representatives of the maritime authorities in a number of countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. This workshop comes within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to update the knowledge of specialists in the maritime transport sector in the relevant authorities, in the application of all international agreements concerned with preserving the marine environment as well as issues of maritime security and safety, as the Ballast Water Management Agreement is one of the important international maritime agreements. Because of its great impact in preserving the marine environment, it entered into force in 2017, and the State of Qatar joined it in 2018. The workshop aims to help prevent the spread of harmful substances and aquatic organisms that may be transported by ships’ ballast water. It discussed all plans, procedures and standards approved for the management and disposal of ballast water. Practical training was also conducted in Hamad Port to see closely how to implement this agreement. At the end of the workshop, Dr. Saleh bin Fetais, Assistant Undersecretary for Maritime Transport Affairs, presented certificates to the participants.

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Since the introduction of steel-hulled vessels, water has been used as ballast to stabilize vessels at sea. Ballast water is pumped in to maintain safe operating conditions throughout a voyage.This practice reduces stress on the hull, provides transverse stability, improves propulsion and manoeuvrability, and compensates for weight changes in various cargo load levels and due to fuel and water consumption. While ballast water is essential for safe and efficient modern shipping operations, it may pose serious ecological, economic and health problems due to the multitude of marine species carried in ships’ ballast water. These include bacteria, microbes, small invertebrates, eggs, cysts and larvae of various species. The transferred species may survive to establish a reproductive population in the host environment, becoming invasive, out-competing native species and multiplying into pest proportions. Scientists first recognized the signs of an alien species introduction after a mass occurrence of the Asian phytoplankton algae Odontella (Biddulphia sinensis)in the North Sea in 1903. But it was not until the 1970s that the scientific community began reviewing the problem in detail. In the late 1980s, Canada and Australia were among countries experiencing particular problems with invasive species, and they brought their concerns to the attention of IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). The problem of invasive species in ships’ ballast water is largely due to the...