The retrofit of a ballast water management system capable of treating high capacity flow rates is an expensive and, in many cases, complex task on board barges.
The treatment of high capacity flow rates during operational ballasting introduces significant risk to the operation and, in fact, is generally unnecessary. With most operational ballasting conducted within the same location, it is, in fact, only the sea going ballast that requires treatment.
At BWC, our barge solutions and products are designed around the treatment of the sea-going ballast only – allowing existing operations to remain largely unchanged, and removing the requirement to retrofit high capacity ballast water management systems on board.