The Compliance of Ship's Crew Toward International Convention Implementation for Controlling of Ballast Water and Sediment from Ships In Offshore Port of Taboneo

A Sulaiman,Mijani Rahman,Achmad Syamsu Hidayat,Noor Arida Fauzana

doi:10.20884/1.oa.2018.14.1.471

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the level of compliance of the ship’s crew toward The BWM Convention. (Ballast Water Management Convetion). This research is kind of qualitative using a research design that relates the independent variables and the dependent variable at the same time. The study was conducted in the Offshore Port of Taboneo with a total sample of 54 respondents. The research data is primary data from interview by using questioner and secondary data obtained from interview and literature study. The results showed that the Compliance of the crew on the ship that has been equipped with Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) is 66.67 % of respondents fall into the category approach to obedient and 33.33 % of respondents approach to non-obedient category. So also the compliance of crew on board ship that has not been equipped with BWTS there are as many as 60.61 % of respondents fall into the category approach to obedient and 39.39 % of respondents approach to non-obedient category.

Highlights

Water transport has an essential role in world trade
The compliance of the crew is measured through specific questions regarding the completeness of the Ballast Water Management document and the actions in accordance with the BWM Convention
These compliance variables are divided into 2 groups ie crew members on ships that have been equipped with Ballast Water Treatment System (BWTS) and crew members on ships that have been not completed with BWTS

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Introduction

Water transport has an essential role in world trade. One of the remarkable achievements of IMO in its efforts to protect the marine environment due to damage caused by shipping activities of a ship is by the International Convention of Control and Management of Ballast Water and Sediments from Ship in 2004 that better known as BWM Convention (Ballast Water Management Convention) hereinafter referred to as the BWM Convention. Legal certainty in protecting the maritime environment of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) or Hazardous Organisms and Aquatic Pathogens (HAOP) caused by ballast water from ships that disposed of without processing first, whether from Indonesian-flagged ships sailing abroad or from foreign flagged ships in Indonesian waters, will be realized by ratifying this Convention (Directorate General of Sea Transportation, 2015)

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