FULL BALLAST TANK CAPACITY

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FULL BALLAST TANK CAPACITY

• Capt. VALTER SUBAN, M.Sc.
• University of Ljubljana
• Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transportation

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Why is important status of tank (and capacity in
it)

• Ballast Water Menadgement
• Draft survey

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BALLAST WATER MENADGEMENT

• Risk assesment - in ports
• Stability status on ship

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Draft survey

• Determination of loading cargo quantity
• Cargo is difference between full and empty ship
  condition
• Empty condition is ballast condition
• Procedure prepared by
• Standardisation by United Nations Economic
  Commission for Europe (UN ECE)
• 1991 the Code of Uniform Standards and Procedures
  for the Performance of Draft Surveys of Coal
  Cargoes

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Is this tank full?