We are an independent service provider founded 1997 as an initiative of Dr. Stephan Gollasch. Located in Hamburg, Germany - the busiest German port - we provide services related to aquatic research and technology with a focus on ballast water. Since 2015 we are member of the Conctrol Union Certifications (CUC) U.S. Coast Card accepted Independent Laboratory to test ballast water management systems. During the >150 vessel voyages for shipboard tests of >20 ballast water management systems we visited all inhabited continents and took >1200 ballast water uptake and discharge samples.