Portside ballast water partnership targets discharge compliance

MicroWISE chief executive officer Pia Haecky linked the partnership to the problem of biological data availability during discharge decisions, “One of the biggest challenges for ports is obtaining reliable biological data in real time.”

“By providing independently verifiable organism counts at the point of treatment, we give ports and regulators the confidence to make fast, transparent decisions about ballast-water discharge,” she said.

MicroWISE reported that its monitoring technology enables in-line detection and quantification of viable organisms, allowing compliance to be assessed before discharge and that integrating real-time organism monitoring would allow ballast water to be processed while avoiding operational disruption.

BIO-UV Group maritime division business unit director Maxime Dedeurwaerder said the partnership reflects a response to tighter regulatory expectations, “As enforcement of the D-2 standard becomes more stringent, ports and operators increasingly recognise the need for reliable biological monitoring alongside effective treatment. Our partnership with MicroWISE enables BIO-UV Group to deliver a solution that provides both.”

The companies said they will continue joint research and development work on sediment removal, flocculation processes and a potential single-pass treatment configuration, with the stated aim of improving efficiency and reducing the footprint of portside systems.

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