Research on the legalized Management Act for the ballast water pollution problem occurs to the harbors in Taiwan (4/4)
- Date：2019-03-06
- Update：2019-03-06
- Department：IOT
Research result：
The “International Vessel Ballast Water & Sediment Control Treaty” developed by MIO (Maritime International Organization) years ago. Until now, it has been signed by 60 countries all over the world, which takes 68% of total tonnage for the global commercial vessels. The D2 regulations are to be enforced starting from 8 September of this year, it will be postponed to November 2019 as being strongly requested by the ship owners of each country. As far as Taiwan is concerned, being experiencing frequent transportation businesses by commercial ships with the overseas harbors, it has been classified as high ballast water contamination area. Therefore, it is required to develop countermeasures according to the applicable laws and systems. Listed below is the main result of this Plan:
- Analyze the transportation pattern of ships traveling along the marine lines between both sides of the strait for 7 harbors in Taiwan in order to provide the result as the reference for developing the ballast water management strategies for the maritime transportation between both sides of the strait.
- Analyze the rules, operation mode and historical cases for the exemption of ballast water management as specified in relevant treaties and foreign rules in order to present the ballast water act practiced in Taiwan as well as the advantages and defects in mutual exemption of ballast water management between both sides of the strait.
Solutions：
Currently, the “3+1” classification management system has been established by Maritime Port Bureau-MOTC, which specifies the ship’s self-management, normal arrival management, Black List project management and ballast water alerting management, etc. However, it only specifies that the water can be replaced outside 12 sea miles off the coastal shore of Taiwan and the governing legal source is apparently insufficient. The draft of Ballast Water Management Act and relevant sub-act will be proposed through the investigation specified in this Plan. Furthermore, corrections will be made to the legal source for “Ocean Contamination Prevention Act”, “Commercial Harbor Act” and “Vessel Act” in order to solve the problem hindering the modification of law for the vessel ballast water management in Taiwan.
Promotion of result：
| Item | Name | Time | Location | Target | Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Publication Research Report | April 2017 | Maritime Port Bureau-MOTC, EPA, Council of Agriculture, Coastal Guard Department, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare. | Promote the execution content of this Plan through the Research Report. | |
| 2. | Submission to domestic periodicals (Port Journal, Edition 108) | September 2017 | Maritime transportation sector | Promote the execution content of this Plan through the Article Content. | |
| 3. | Convened the seminar | August 2017 | Maritime Port Bureau, MOTC | Maritime Port Bureau-MOTC, EPA, Council of Agriculture, Coastal Guard Department, and Ministry of Health and Welfare | Promote the execution content of this Plan by means of seminar. |
