Nippon Paint Marine

Carnival coats a 16th vessel with Nippon Paint Marine’s Aquaterras

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Carnival Corporation is playing great attention to hydrodynamic efficiency to reach its carbon reduction goals – and using advanced hull coatings, including Nippon Paint Marine’s Aquaterras, is among the multiple steps the cruise giant is taking to achieve that efficiency.

Nippon Paint Marine reports that the latest application of Aquaterras was to AIDAdiva, operated by Carnival’s AIDA Cruises brand. This application marke the 16th vessel in the Carnival group to fully be applied with Nippon’s...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/carnival-coats-a-16th-vessel-with-nippon-paint-marines-aquaterras/

Nippon Paint Marine harnesses biomimetics in next-gen coatings

Nippon Paint Marine has published a new white paper detailing the role that biomimetics has played in the development of its patented HydroSmoothXT hull coating technology.

Biometics is an “imitating nature” approach to technology development and a specialist team from Nippon Paint Marine’s R&D program studied the natural characteristics of marine life to inform the development of the HydroSmoothXT technology. The performance of Nippon Paint Marine’s antifouling coatings range – which include...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/nippon-paint-marine-harnesses-biomimetics-in-next-gen-coatings/

Gladys Goh named new Nippon Paint Marine president

Nippon Paint Marine, the world’s first manufacturer of biocide-free marine coatings, has announced the appointment of Gladys Goh as its president, effective immediately. With a history of over 140 years, the company is the founding business of the Nippon Paint Holdings Group and, with the appointment, Goh, a Malaysian, becomes the first woman, and the first foreign national to lead a principal operating company in Japan.

Goh, who concurrently serves as senior vice-president, strategic innovation...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/gladys-goh-named-new-nippon-paint-marine-president/

VIDEO: Hudong-Zonghua delivers world’s largest containership

There’s a new holder of “the world’s largest containership” title and it’s another Evergreen Marine Corporation giant, the 24,000 TEU Ever Alot,

Delivered Wednesday by China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd, it measures 399.99 meters in length and 61.5 meters in width. It is the first of four new A-Class box ships set to join the Evergreen fleet from the shipyard.

While cynics may be pondering how many tugs and dredges it would take to move the ship should it follow the example of Eve...

https://www.marinelog.com/video/video-hudong-zonghua-delivers-worlds-largest-containership/

SE Asia drydocking capacity to drop by 25%

SE Asia drydocking capacity to drop by 25%

STRICT COVID MEASURES COULD RESTRICT SOUTHEAST ASIA DRYDOCKING CAPACITY

High freight rates and ongoing workforce limitations due to travel restrictions and Covid-19 measures are expected to result in Southeast Asia’s ship repair capacity falling by more than 25% compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to Nippon Paint Marine.

In 2019, a total of 516 vessels totalling 28mdwt drydocked at Singapore shipyards for paint jobs, but numbers dwindled to 296...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/02/04/se-asia-drydocking-capacity-to-drop-by-25/

Nippon Paint Marine’s FASTAR antifouling applied to COSCO ships

Nippon Paint Marine’s FASTAR antifouling applied to COSCO ships

COSCO Star will dock at the COSCO Shipping’s repair yard in Shanghai in February for FASTAR® I application

NIPPON PAINT MARINE’S NEW FASTAR ANTIFOULING EARMARKED FOR COSCO SHIPPING VLCC FLEET

COSCO Shipping has indicated it will coat its entire fleet of VLCCs with Nippon Paint Marine’s new antifouling system FASTAR® once initial applications have been evaluated.

The hulls of the passenger ferry COSCO Star and the 56,000dwt bulk carrier 

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/01/24/nippon-paint-marines-fastar-antifouling-applied-to-cosco-ships/

Ninety months of hull protection from Nippon Paint Marine

Ninety months of hull protection from Nippon Paint Marine

Above: Bulk Carrier Yaya Goose after 60 months, before washing

The operator of a large 72,300dwt containership delivered in 2013 found Nippon’s low-friction LF-Sea hull coating to be in pristine condition after more than 90 months of service.

The boxship drydocked for the first time in May 2021 after operating for seven-and-a-half years. It dry-docked at a shipyard in the Far-East, where Nippon Paint Marine carried out a thorough coating...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/06/28/ninety-months-of-hull-protection-from-nippon-paint-marine/

Nippon Paint Marine’s Biocide-Free Aquaterras Wins Green Technology Award

NCL Signs Fleet-Wide Agreement For A-lf-sea Hull Coating

Nippon Paint Marine Coatings revolutionary ships’ hull coating AQUATERRAS won the Green4Sea Technology Award in an online-only event attended by the company’s President Seiichiro Shirahata.

The paint system, currently the world’s first and only completely biocide-free, self-polishing (SPC) antifouling paint, came top in a global poll for making a “significant technological breakthrough” in marine environmental sustainability.

On accepting the award Mr Shirahata said: “We are honoured to receive...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/nippon-paint-marines-biocide-free-aquaterras-wins-green-technology-award/

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