What is it about?

Ballast water of merchant ship is a source of introduction of invasive species around the globe. This paper presents a quantitative risk assessment applied to a model port, the port of Arzew in Algeria, and based on an analysis of this port’s shipping traffic.

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Why is it important?

introduction of invasive species in ports from ship ballast waters

Perspectives

This assessment’s outcomeconsists ona classification of scenarios regarding their acceptability. Consequently, it helped to classify donor ports according to a risk scale, from low risk to high risk donor ports.

Professor LYLIA BAHMED
IHSI-UNIVERSITY OF BATNA ALGERIA

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This page is a summary of: Design of a risk assessment methodology for the introduction of invasive species from ship ballast waters, Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal, August 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/meq-02-2015-0023.
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