Tag: hull cleaning

A new paper addresses the impact of periodic hull cleaning on oil tankers concluding that periodic hull cleaning leads to a significant reduction in the daily fuel consumption and hull cleaning energy efficiency effect is greater when the vessel is sailing laden rather than in the ballast condition.

New Zealand’s Craft Risk Management Standard requires all vessels arriving shall have a clean hull or adhere to biofouling management best practices. As only few months are left for compliance, the country’s Ministry for Primary Industries encourages operators to contact staff to discuss compliance options for their vessels.

GAC Egypt announced that expanded its HullWiper hull cleaning system to vessels berthing at ports in the Suez Canal.  The eco-friendly remotely operated vehicle has already attended its first vessel, respectively a crude oil tanker.

Coatings manufacturer Hempel announced that it is launching two new antifouling coatings with the aim to offer potential 2.5 per cent reduction in speed loss resulting in significant fuel savings and lower CO2 emissions improving the operational efficiency of a vessel and minimizing the operator's environmental footprint.

The first hull cleaning of a cruise vessel has been completed in Copenhagen. The removal of marine fouling from the DFDS Group’s 2,800 DWT ‘Pearl Seaways’, which serves routes between Copenhagen and Oslo, marked the latest in more than 550 hull cleans carried out by the pioneering remotely operated vehicle worldwide.

Chugoku Marine Paints has launched a new antifouling product containing the bio-repellent ingredient Selektope, to address different vessel requirements. SEA GRANDPRIX 880HS PLUS is the third product by the company that contains Selektope.

Fleet Cleaner and OH Ship Cleaning announced that have recently realized in water cleaning of the hull of the ‘Vlieborg’ vessel from Wagenborg, using hull cleaning robot, in the Port of Rotterdam. The Vlieborg was heavily fouled with slime and algae, which were all removed from the hull and captured by the installation.

The twelve major ports of India, under the Ministry of Shipping, have been ranked on sanitation parameters, based on the efforts undertaken by them to counter waste generating sources. The ‘Swachhta Pakhwada’ campaign brought the focus on the setting up of ‘Green Ports’ for sustainable, environment friendly, long term development of ports.

Arctic shipping is projected to increase as ice-melt is making the Arctic waters more accessible, but this also increases the risk of environmental disaster. When emitted and deposited on Arctic snow or ice, the climate warming effect of black carbon is at least three times more than when emitted over open ocean.