The main reason why ships pump water out from the sides is because of ballasting operations. Ballasting is a very important aspect of a ship's ability to maintain stability and safe handling at sea.

A major step forward in tanker operation safety was taken as ABS announced technical guidance for inert gas systems for ballast tanks. Compliance to the guidelines leads to the class notation ...

The U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian regulators say they inspected the ballast tanks of all 466 saltwater ships that entered the Great Lakes in 2016, a measure that has been credited with reducing new ...

Researchers working with the American Steamship Co. tested a new system Sunday to kill invasive species in the ballast water of a 1,000-foot Great Lakes freighter. Crews pumped a biocide into two of ...