Speakers
Biofouling Management: Regulatory & Implementation Practicalities
2023 IMO BioFouling Management guidelines provide structured procedures for the prevention of the transfer of Invasive aquatic species from ship’s hull. The importance of Biofouling inspection to maintain a hull free from fouling has long been overlooked. Bio-fouling inspections is been used as a measure to confirm hull fouling when other indicators highlights decrease in ships performance. This reactive approach costs fuel efficiency, increases GHG emissions and has the potential for the transfer of IAS. BMS wish to discuss a proactive way of using Biofouling inspection as a tool to identify potential marine growth, plan actions accordingly to reduce drawbacks of the reactive approaches. In addition to the above, we discuss the cost-effective, efficient BF inspections using ROV’s and digital reporting formats. The digital reporting can feed back to ship’s performance platforms and can be used to predict ship-based biofouling growth under certain conditions.