TY - JFULL AU - Rajoo Balaji and Omar Yaakob PY - 2014/9/ TI - Ballast Water Management Triad: Administration, Ship Owner and the Seafarer T2 - International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering SP - 561 EP - 566 VL - 8 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999013 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 92, 2014 N2 - The Ballast Water Convention requires less than 5% of the world tonnage for ratification. Consequently, ships will have to comply with the requirements. Compliance evaluation and enforcement will become mandatory. Ship owners have to invest in treatment systems and shipboard personnel have to operate them and ensure compliance. The monitoring and enforcement will be the responsibilities of the Administrations. Herein, a review of the current status of the Ballast Water Management and the issues faced by these are projected. Issues range from efficacy and economics of the treatment systems to sampling and testing. Health issues of chemical systems, paucity of data for decision support etc., are other issues. It is emphasized that management of ballast water must be extended to ashore and sustainable solutions must be researched upon. An exemplar treatment system based on ship’s waste heat is also suggested. ER -