ATTY. BRENDA V. PIMENTEL
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention) will enter into force on September 8 next year. This comes after the required number of States, whose combined merchant fleets constitute not less than thirty-five percent of the gross tonnage of the world’s merchant shipping, have ratified the convention and have deposited the requisite instrument of ratification.