The subject of the research is issues related to the field of ship power plants and their elements, as well as the operation of water transport and its environmental safety. Studying the processes of ballast water purification and disinfection, as well as oil-containing water that are formed during the ships operation, shows the possibility of increasing the efficiency of these processes. It is proposed to consider these processes, starting from the stage of supplying the ozone-air mixture to the flow of treated water, without limiting ourselves to the study of the actual process of oxidation by ozone of a contaminated, including bacteriologically hazardous, substance. This approach makes it possible to establish the limiting stages of the contaminated water purification and disinfection process, which includes the stage of ozone dissolution in water during its transition from the ozone-air mixture, as well as the stage of subsequent diffusion of ozone dissolved in water into the reaction contact zone. It has been shown that the kinetic characteristics of the limiting stages depend on the conditions of their implementation, which can reduce the efficiency of ozone use due to the limited time of its existence. A technological proposal that makes it possible to increase the efficiency of ozone use and the reliability of ensuring the requirements for the quality of cleaning and disinfection of marine pollution has been developed. Technological proposals provide for the preliminary saturation with ozone of a specially allocated water stream for this purpose, the supply of this stream to the concentration zone of the oxidized and disinfected substance. A device in which the developed technological fragment, including a pump supplying a water flow to a contact column, an ozone generator, a device for supplying an ozone-saturated water flow to a filter, is implemented is also proposed.