One of the world’s largest bulker operators, Hong Kong headquartered Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, is to apply a sustainable graphene-based propeller coating, XGIT-PROP, across its entire fleet. The innovative coating has been developed by Canadian company GIT Coatings, which notes that it has demonstrated the potential to enhance vessel performance by up to 4%, making it a highly effective solution to improve CII and RightShip GHG ratings.
Following successful application and obtaining...
Stolt Tankers says that is the first shipping company in the world to apply a cutting-edge sustainable coating based on graphene to the hull of a chemical tankers, its 30,000 dwt Stolt Lotus. Last month, vessel was drydocked in China for five days when the sustainable hull coating was applied. It is expected to last for approximately ten years, with an evaluation at five years to confirm if any maintenance is required.
According to the EU-funded Graphene Flagship Project, graphene – a single...
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