The certification of ballast water treatment systems is on the agenda at the 6th GloBal TestNet Forum, hosted by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in Plymouth, UK (9-11 December). This 6th Forum is the first independent meeting organized by the GloBal TestNet group, which was initiated by the GEF-UNDP-IMO GloBallast Partnerships Programme under its Global Industry Alliance (GIA) 6 years ago.

IMO’s Aicha Cherif and Antoine Blonce are observing the meeting, the first objective of which is to establish a permanent secretariat, followed by presentations by the test facilities and group discussions to enable the group to provide input to the Study on the implementation of the D-2 standard (read more – paragraph 8) to be submitted to IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee in 2016.