{"id":128482,"date":"2018-02-09T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/qatar-accedes-to-ballast-water-management-convention\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T09:45:22","slug":"qatar-accedes-to-ballast-water-management-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/en\/qatar-accedes-to-ballast-water-management-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar accedes to Ballast Water Management Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-128480\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bcc289acef4bdd177da5a50f53e862c8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bcc289acef4bdd177da5a50f53e862c8-200x136.jpg 200w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bcc289acef4bdd177da5a50f53e862c8-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimes.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bcc289acef4bdd177da5a50f53e862c8.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/>Sixty-eight countries have now signed up to IMO\u2019s Ballast Water Management Convention, with Qatar being the latest to accede to the treaty helping to protect the marine environment. <\/p>\n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" style=\"width:100\\%; max-width:308px;\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"image_apostasi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image_sketi\" src=\"\/ennews\/uploads\/180209_qtar_lim.jpg\" style=\"max-width:308px; width:100\\%; max-height:209px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The signatories now represent more than 75\\% of the world&#8217;s merchant fleet tonnage. Under the treaty, ships are required to manage their ballast water, which can contain thousands of aquatic or marine microbes, plants and organisms, which are then carried across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>H.E. Mr. Yousef Ali Al-Khater, Ambassador of Qatar to the United Kingdom, met IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim at IMO Headquarters, London (8 February) to deposit the instrument of accession.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the Ballast Water Management Convention, including FAQs, videos, infographics and more,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.org\/en\/MediaCentre\/HotTopics\/Pages\/Implementing-the-BWM-Convention.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;here<\/a>.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>imo.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-eight countries have now signed up to IMO\u2019s Ballast Water Management Convention, with Qatar being  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritimes-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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