Establishment of Integrated Management System

Abstract

With the increase of the volume of international trade recently, how to manage non-indigenous species that are flowed into the sea along with ballast water comes to the fore as an urgent issue. The reason is because nonindigenous species poses a threat to the human health, and the environmental, economic value, as they bring about the serious change in the existing environment and ecosystem. Therefore, IMO adopted International Convention for the Control and Management of Ship's Ballast Water and Sediments in Feb, 2004. The convention will take effect soon, and every country of the world is preparing to deal with it at the moment. This study is aimed to manage the information of ballast water discharge and develop the system to assess the risk of port due to ballast water discharge.