Saga Shipholding’s Optimarin experience drives new BWT system orders

2 May 2016, Norway: Ballast water treatment (BWT) specialist Optimarin has signed a contract with Saga Shipholding for the provision of three of its market leading Optimarin Ballast Systems (OBS). The order marks a new chapter in the successful working relationship between the two, with Saga originally purchasing an initial 26 systems from Optimarin in 2012. According to Nils Otto Bjorhovde, Saga Shipholding’s Hong Kong-based Technical Manager, it’s the performance of those systems to date that persuaded the firm to return for more: “We spent 2011 evaluating the entire BWT market,”