Alfa Laval – a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling – has won an order to supply Alfa Laval PureBallast systems to a leading shipyard in South Korea. The order, booked in the Marine & Diesel Equipment segment late March, has a value of approximately SEK 50 million (approx $7.8 Mln). Delivery will start in 2013 and be finalized in 2014.
The Alfa Laval PureBallast systems will be installed onboard vessels where they will clean the ballast water down to a limit complying with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) convention and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) legislation, before it is discharged.
Lars Renström, President and CEO of the Alfa Laval Group says:
“This order confirms the growing demand for our PureBallast system for new vessels. It is also encouraging to notice that during the last months there is an increasing interest among ship-owners for ballast water treatment for their existing fleet.”
The IMO convention “International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water & Sediments” will enter into force one year after ratification by 30 states, representing 35 percent of the world’s tonnage. Today 36 states have ratified, representing 29 percent of the world fleet. Once the convention is ratified Alfa Laval estimates that 35,000 ships will be equipped with ballast water treatment systems during the following ten years – of which 15,000 are newly built vessels and 20,000 are existing vessels.
Press Release, April 9, 2013