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Ballast Water Exchange

August 9, 2017

The process of removing entrained ballast water from ballast tanks and uptaking replacement ballast water into those tanks. Ballast water exchange is one type of ballast water management methods and can be done via empty/refill (ER) or flow-through (FT). Also see the term Ballast Water Management.

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