The Federal Public Service (FPS) Mobility and Transport, the arm of the Belgium government responsible for shipping, has selected Chelsea[ds_preview] Technologies to provide benchmark portable testing for compliance with ballast water standards. This follows the Belgium government’s decision to begin testing vessels calling at its ports to ensure they can demonstrate compliance with the IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention, representing one of the first European nations to enforce this mandate. FastBallast will be deployed as a benchmark testing device to conduct spot checks on indicative sampling of vessels in any Belgium port, allowing Port State Control (PSC) to target vessels for laboratory compliance testing.
