Owners enter last-chance saloon for ballast water regulations

After 14 years of false dawns, the IMO set the clock ticking on compliance after confirming the approval for BWMS, writes Olli Somerkallio

The IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee in April attracted an unusual level of scrutiny from the global media, with the regulator agreeing to cut shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions to 50% of their 2008 levels by 2050.