Finally, ballast water compliance that doesn't make you want to jump overboard
BallastBrain automates the entire ballast water management lifecycle — treatment cycle tracking, real-time exchange event logging, and IMO D-2 compliant Ballast Water Record Book generation. Port state control officers get everything they need, formatted exactly the way they want it, without you touching a single spreadsheet. I watched a $400k fine get handed to a shipping company over a smudged logbook entry and I built this so it never happens to you.
- Automated treatment cycle tracking with full IMO D-2 audit trail
- Real-time exchange event logging synced across up to 14 concurrent vessel profiles
- Ballast Water Record Book generation in PSC-ready PDF format
- Native integration with fleet management platforms and AIS data feeds
- Inspection mode — hands the tablet to the officer, they see exactly what they need
ShipNet, BASS Fleet Manager, AIS Live, Kognifai Marina, VesselVault, PortBase, ClassNK ZEAL, DNV Veracity, TideSync API, HarbourLedger, Inmarsat Fleet Data, MarineTraffic
BallastBrain runs on a Node.js microservices core with each vessel profile isolated in its own stateless service container, deployed via Docker on a hardened VPS that I manage personally. Exchange event logs are written to MongoDB for its flexible document model — compliance records are nested JSON by nature and relational databases were never going to cut it here. Redis handles all long-term record archival because I needed the retrieval speed at inspection time and I am not apologizing for that decision. The PDF generation pipeline is a custom-built renderer that outputs pixel-perfect BWRB layouts; I spent three weeks on it and it shows.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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