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ANALYSIS OF BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION PREVENTION DEFICIENCIES - EFFECTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The importance of maritime transport is reflected in the fact that almost 4/5 of world trade is carried by sea. Shipping, as the most environmentally sound mode of transport, has a great impact on the achievement of sustainable development. Except for the economic and social benefits of carrying goods by sea, the potential threat of maritime transport to marine environment should not be neglected. One of the major lines for the defense of substandard shipping and the achievement of sustainable maritime transport is through Port State Control Inspections (PSC). Besides most common deficiencies, inspections also provide an insight into deficiencies regarding pollution prevention in world ports. Following the newly introduced pollution prevention regulation - Ballast Water Management Convention, from 2017 PSC also starts to record this type of deficiencies. The most intense areas of maritime transport are covered within Tokyo and Paris Memorandum of Understanding. The authors examined the available data on recorded ship deficiencies during ship inspections related to pollution prevention - Ballast Water Management for four-year period within two regional PSC regimes. The aim of this paper is to present pollution prevention deficiencies regarding Ballast Water Management and set them in a correlation with inspections

sustainable maritime transport ; Port State Control ; pollution prevention ; Ballast Water Management

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