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Two meeting of Athena on the control and the management of the ballast water
Genoa and tuesdays to Rome will hold tomorrow to
May 16, 2012
In the within of the initiatives of the Italian Association of Naval Technology (Athena) in relation to the international Convention for the control and the management of the ballast water and coming sediments from the ships, approved of from the IMO and waiting for it ratifies for its effectiveness, that it will demand to all the ships to on board install systems for the treatment of ballast waters in an amount of time that for the existing ships could last until 2016, the Piedmontese From Liguria Section of the association tomorrow has organized in order to the hours 16,00 near the center of the Faculty of Engineering of Genoa workshops onthe topic "Toilets ballast management. All ready for the effectiveness". The program of the encounter previews the illustration by the RINA of the current state of the international norm and it will make use of the presence of professionals and representatives of three maker (Alpha Laval, Consilium Marine/Ocean Saver and Macnavi/Auramarine) for an update on some more important aspects before the effectiveness of the convention.
Moreover the Section of Rome of Athena has organized for next tuesday to hours 10,30, near the Shipping center of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), a convention on the topic "Systems of Treatment. Update Normative - Requisitioned federal Americans".
Athena has already faced some of the issues that such normative new will involve in the construction and the exercise of the ships in the course of organized encounters from various sections of the association.
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