During the last Volvo Ocean Race, logistics provider Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) initiated a unique water sampling project to measure the amount of organisms in the oceans.
The results have now been evaluated by Wallenius Water, BioThema, Oregon State University and University of Hawaii and presented in a scientific report called “A Global Mapping of Ocean Microbial Biomass”.
This report supports the Wallenius Water thesis of there being similarities in the amount of microorganism’s present out to sea compared to the coastal areas. This, in turn, supports the need of purifying the ballast water before it is shifted out to sea. The existing solution until vessels are forced to treat their ballast water is open oceans exchange which is of several reasons not a sustainable solution.
Read more and dowload the report here