Hyde Marine, a subsidiary of Calgon Carbon has announced that it has entered in a MOU with Keppel Shipyard in Singapore and SEAQUEST Marine Systems for installation of the Hyde GUARDIAN Gold Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS).
Under the MOU, Keppel Shipyard can conduct installations of Hyde GUARDIAN Gold BWTS at its Singapore shipyard. This partnership helps Hyde Marine to expand business in Asian market as the maritime industry has to obey with international ballast water treatment standards.
Keppel Shipyard’s marine expertise enables Hyde Marine to focus on providing ship owners with leading ballast water treatment technologies. Keppel Shipyard, through SEAQUEST Marine Systems, will install Water Treatment Systems for retrofit applications, in response to the demand of ship owners compliance with future regulations, said, John Platz, president, Hyde Marine.
The technology uses efficient filtration to treat ships’ ballast water to prevent the spread of disease causing species. It is ideal for retrofits providing the compact size required by shipowners and operators, while adhering to the technological specifications to meet BWT regulations.
In 2004, the IMO introduced the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWMC), which needs ships to conduct a ballast water exchange or to fulfill concentration-based ballast water discharge standards that will make tanks 99.99 percent free of living organisms.
Keppel Shipyard is renowned for the repair, conversion and upgrading of a diverse range of vessels. In 2013, it was the first shipyard to execute a BWTS retrofit project for a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) in Singapore.
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