12 May 2026 Home   »   Concentrated Inspection Campaigns • Documents • News   »   Report of the 2025 CIC on Ballast Water Management Report of the 2025 CIC on Ballast Water Management Posted in Concentrated Inspection Campaigns , Documents , News On May 12, 2026 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