Report of the 2025 CIC on Ballast Water Management

From 1 September 2025 to 30 November 2025, the Black Sea MoU carried out a Concentrated
Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Ballast Water Management. The campaign was carried out by the
Member Authorities of the Black Sea MoU that have ratified the International Convention for the
Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (BWM Convention). The CIC
was conducted in conjunction with the Paris and the Tokyo Memoranda. This campaign was
conducted under the campaign coordination of the Maritime Administration of Türkiye. The
Guidelines and Questionnaires jointly developed by the Paris and Tokyo Memoranda were used
throughout the campaign.

The CIC applied to all ships and each ship was subjected to only one CIC inspection during the
campaign period. Over the course of the campaign, a total of 775 inspections were carried out by
the member Authorities of the BS MoU which are a party to the BWM Convention, covering 736
individual ships. Among these, 624 inspections were conducted using the CIC questionnaire. During
the CIC, 76 ships were detained in total. Of which, 52 detentions were the result of inspections with
CIC questionnaires and 16 of them were detained directly attributed to CIC-related deficiencies.
A total of 59 questionnaires recorded at least one non-compliance response, representing 9.46 per
cent of CIC inspections. The overall average rate of non-compliances was 1.51%, reflecting the
proportion of the “unsatisfactory” answers in relation to all applicable questionnaire responses.

Report of CIC 2025 on Ballast Water Management