Critical review of the IMO international convention on the management of ships' ballast water and sediments

Harmful Algae

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 585-600

  Gollasch, Stephan ^a   David, Matej ^b   Voigt, Matthias ^c   Dragsund, Egil ^d   Hewitt, Chad ^e   Fukuyo, Yasuwo ^f  

^a GoConsult   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c Dr Voigt Consulting   (Germany)

^d DNV GL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ballast water; Ballast water management convention; Sediments; Shipping

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247176600     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2006.12.009     Document Type: Article

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