Procedures for ship maintenance and recycling facilities
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Procedures for ship maintenance and recycling facilities

  6.9 Ship maintenance and recycling facilities should adopt measures (consistent with applicable national and local laws and regulations) to ensure that viable biofouling organisms or chemical and physical pollutants are not released into the local aquatic environment. These measures include the following:

  • .1 capturing biological material to minimize the risk of organism survival and establishment and other impacts of biological material being released into the aquatic environment;

  • .2 treating and/or disposing of captured biological material in an environmentally appropriate manner;

  • .3 scheduling of ships' arrival and departure at cleaning and maintenance facilities and at locations where ships are moored while waiting for cleaning and maintenance to minimize the risk of fouled ships contaminating other ships and the surrounding environment;

  • .4 removing biofouling from all underwater surfaces of a ship when in dry-dock, including niche areas; and

  • .5 lowering or extending retractable equipment such as stabilizers, thrusters, transducers and similar when a ship is in dry-dock or slipped, to permit access for the removal of biofouling from the equipment and its housing.

Parent topic: 6 Anti-Fouling system installation and maintenance
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