Great Ships Initiative

Great Ships Initiative (GSI) is a regional effort devoted to ending the problem of ship-mediated invasive species in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System and globally. Since its establishment in 2006, GSI has provided high quality independent performance/verification testing services to developers of ballast water management systems (BWMSs) at the bench, land-based and shipboard scales.

March 2013 - GSI has just released a technical report on shipboard testing of a BWMS involving sodium hydroxide (NaOH) .....MORE.

January 2013 - GSI is now accepting applications for 2013 bench, land-based, and shipboard BWMS testing...... MORE.

August 2012 - GSI, in partnership with NSF International, MERC, and Retlif Testing Laboratories, has just received U.S. Coast Guard approval to become the first "Independent Laboratory" for the evaluation, inspection, and testing of ballast water management systems..... MORE .

June 2012 - GSI has just released a technical report on land-based tests of a BWMS involved sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl).......MORE.

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