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The BMW Convention (International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship’s Ballast Water and Sediments) was adopted as early as 2004, but to date only a dozen countries (Barbados, Egypt, Kenya, Kiribati, Maldives, Nigeria, Norway, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sierra Leone, Spain, Syria and Tavalu), representing less than 3.5 per cent of the world’s merchant shipping, have adopted it. The issue therefore came up for a review at a meeting of the UN Marine En vironment Protection Committee in London recently.

The committee, a body of the International Maritime Organisation, also examined the final amendments to MARPOL (short for marine pollution) Annexe VI regulations to ban ship pollution.

It also discussed the final draft amendments on air pollution before formally adopting them in October. A new convention on ship recycling, the objective being to complete the draft in time for adoption at diplomatic conference next year, was also on the agenda at the London meeting.

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