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Improved Prewash Procedures for Solidifying or High-Viscosity Substances

Improved Prewash Procedures for Solidifying or High-Viscosity Substances

MEPC77/INF.9 17 September 2021 Findings on improved prewash procedures for solidifying or high-viscosity substances (paraffin waxes) Submitted by the Netherlands. This IMO paper relates to a Dutch initiative regarding Paraffin Wax Substances which fall under the new MARPOL Annex II discharge requirements for persistent floaters, which have been found washed upon a number of Dutch beaches in considerable quantities. The outcome of the Dutch initiative was an improved unloading and washing strategy resulting in hardly any paraffin waxes found on…

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