One of my hobby horses is not ballast water management, but class societies. There is a convention working its way through IMO relating to recognised organisations (ROs). To me, frankly, it is more significant than the Ballast Water Management Convention. This is not to minimise this legislation, but the Ballast Water Management Convention is a cost that will be spread over the entire industry. The draft Code for Recognized Organisations, which is being prepared at IMO and is supposedly close to....

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