The saltie Federal Welland docked in Superior on Tuesday is a perfect topic for the international discussion on ballast water. It's also a prototype of how the shipping industry is trying to fight ...

Ships that transport goods around the world are carrying some dangerous stowaways. Tiny organisms travel from port to port in a ship's ballast water. And some of them have become invasive species, ...

A chemical treatment system thatis designed to kill living organisms in a ship's ballast water and then is rendered nontoxic will be the subject of the first test conducted at the fledgling Great ...

The Maritime Environmental Resource Center, headquartered at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, announced this week that it received approval from the U.S. Coast Guard as the first ...