{"id":4347,"date":"2015-11-25T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2015\/11\/25\/indonesia-ratifies-ballast-water-convention\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:39:00","slug":"indonesia-ratifies-ballast-water-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2015\/11\/25\/indonesia-ratifies-ballast-water-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia ratifies ballast water convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BWM Convention requires ships to have procedures in place for BWM as it aims to prevent the spread of harmful and invasive aquatic species in ships\u2019 ballast water.<\/p>\n

Mr Ignasius Jonan, Indonesia\u2019s minister of transportation ratified the convention during the 29th session of the IMO Assembly on 24 November.<\/p>\n

Indonesia\u2019s agreement comes after capacity-building projects which were undertaken by the IMO in collaboration with the Norwegian Development Cooperation Agency and the support of the Globallast project.<\/p>\n

Morocco\u2019s ratification on November 23 brought the count to 32.93% of the world tonnage, meaning the convention is very close to formal verification.<\/p>\n

It will come into force 12 months after the date on which up to 30 IMO member states, which represent a total of 35% of the world\u2019s tonnage, ratify it.<\/p>\n

Previous to Indonesia\u2019s approval, 44 countries had already signed up but are still 2.07% off the tonnage quota.<\/p>\n

With the convention edging ever closer to ratification, Damen\u2019s manager of Ballast Water Treatment, Gert-Jan Oude Egberink, spoke to GreenPort<\/i><\/a><\/i> about the implications it contains for the 60,000 vessels that will be affected and urged those involved to be ready when ratification comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indonesia has become the latest country to ratify the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention, according to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-policy-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}