One of shipping’s biggest environmental hurdles is water — not the water ships float on, but the water ships carry around as weight to float upright. That ballast water can unintentionally carry unseen critters far from home, leading to problems like the zebra mussels that clog up power plants along the Great Lakes and Mississippi River.
BIO-UV Group, a global leader in the field of environmentally protective water-treatment, has signed on to deliver a revolutionary system to treat ballast water in two state-of-the-art cruise ships.
The ships, Ilma and Luminara, are now being built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique for the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection.
“These premium ships are at the cutting edge of environmental technology,” says Maxime Dedeurwaerder, Business Unit Director of BIO-UV. “Advanced, UV-based ballast-water treatment will safeguard our oceans from invasive non-indigenous organisms.”
By Alex Darlington
