Sediment control
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Marine Environment Protection Committee - Resolution MEPC.123(53) - Guidelines for Ballast Water Management Equivalent Compliance (G3) - (Adopted on 22 July 2005) - Annex - Guidelines for Ballast Water Management Equivalent Compliance (G3) - Precautionary practices to minimize the uptake or transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens - Sediment control

Sediment control

  10 Where practicable, routine cleaning of the ballast tank to remove sediments should be carried out under controlled arrangements, and suitable arrangements made for the environmentally sound disposal of any resulting sediments.

Parent topic: Precautionary practices to minimize the uptake or transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens
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