Tailor-made solutions to fit your need at dry-docking
From extensive experience in the marine industry and continuous close collaboration with our customers we are able to innovate and build unique solutions to fit your specific needs in the market today.
With a wide range of antifouling and anticorrosive products we can build systems that:
- Optimise hull performance and fuel efficiency during operation
- Ensure hull performance to maintain speed and schedule
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Solutions
Tailor-made solutions to fit your need at dry-docking
From extensive experience in the marine industry and continuous close collaboration with our customers we are able to innovate and build unique solutions to fit your specific needs in the market today.
With a wide range of antifouling and anticorrosive products we can build systems that:- Optimise hull performance and fuel efficiency during operation
- Ensure hull performance to maintain speed and schedule
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Products
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Key considerations in drydock
Optimise your docking with a dry-docking solution from Jotun
1. Determine overall priorities
Given the specifics of the situation your ship will be facing over the next dry-docking cycle(s); vessel and trade, market conditions and desired source and level of competitiveness - what are your overall priorities for this docking?
- Maximum hull performance / minimum fuel cost
- Maximum operating flexibility including slow steaming
- Minimum docking / re-docking costs
- A combination of the above
While it sometimes does make sense to optimise for lowest possible docking costs, one should bear in mind that the value of even a small improvement in performance typically greatly exceeds even a major reduction in docking cost. For an owner of typical mid-size vessel in a typical trade, for example, the fuel cost saving associated with even a 1% improvement in hull performance is likely to exceed USD 300,000 - while the paint associated with securing a market average hull coating system completely free of charge is likely to be less than USD 150,000.2. Select hull coating system
Given the specifics of the situation and your priorities for this docking - what is the optimal hull coating system (antifouling, tie coat, primer)?
- Out of dock and lifetime performance (best effort or guaranteed?)
- Flexibility in terms of idle periods and changes in trade (e.g. a return to higher speeds)
- Expected direct and indirect costs associated with maintaining in-service performance (e.g. hull cleaning)
- Cost of paint and impact on other docking costs
Quite a few owners have been so disappointed by the performance of their hull coatings over the last several docking cycles that they have come to the conclusion that hull coatings do not work and that in-service hull cleanings are unavoidable. While this may be true for some ships in particularly challenging trades, for most ships and for most trades there are hull coatings available from Jotun that are able to keep the hull fouling free over 60 and even 90 months. For a number of products in our hull coating range, specific lifetime antifouling performance guarantees are included as standard. For our best products we even offer high performance guarantees based on reliable and fully transparent measurement of the impact of changes in hull performance on ship energy efficiency over time (see Hull Performance Solutions).
3. Select level of pre-treatment
Given the specifics of the situation, your priorities for this docking and the hull coating system selected - what is the optimal level of pre-treatment?
- Spot blast versus full blast
- In the event of spot blast, squared off or not
A fully blasted hull is typically much smoother and thereby performs much better than a spot blasted hull out of dock (as a rule of thumb around 1.5% difference in ship energy efficiency). The value of an out-of-dock performance gain depends very much on the extent to which it can be maintained over the full dry docking cycle. If, for example, the hull is fairly quickly covered by light and heavy slime, the smoothness or roughness of what lies below makes much less of a difference. Therefore, in general, we recommend that the decision on level of pre-treatment should come after a decision on hull coating system.
If the decision is to go for a spot blast, in many cases “squaring off” sections of the hull can be a more cost effective approach than traditional spot blasting. The added benefit of “squaring off” sections of the hull is a reduction in the roughness caused by the spot blast.
4. Select service offering
Given the specifics of the situation, your priorities for this docking, the hull coating system and level of pre-treatment selected - what is the optimal service offering?
- Technical support during pre-treatment and application
- In service performance monitoring
- Antifouling and high performance guarantees
Hull coatings are semi-finished products. Even the best coating can perform disastrously if it is not applied correctly. Along the same lines, the value of an improvement in performance is more or less worthless if it cannot be measured. Finally, antifouling and high performance guarantees can be used to place a significant part of the risk associated with hull coatings where it belongs – with the coatings supplier. Jotun can work with you in putting together a service offering that meets your specific needs. -
Delivery network
Jotun is able to deliver paint on all continents
Jotun is represented in over 90 countries worldwide
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References
References - Drydock
Al Deebel, MOL LNG
Qatar - 2015
During drydock in November 2015, Al Deebel was successfully coated with Jotun's high performance coating system at N-KOM shipyard, Qatar.
Bow Clipper, Odfjell
Bahrain - 2015
Hardtop AX in colour 2880 provides a perfect finish in one single coat on top of Jotamastic 90 in colour Grey XO.
COSCO Europe
China - 2012
On COSCO Europe, Jotun’s HPS (Hull Performance Solutions) with a tailored antifouling is expected to deliver USD 7.5 million fuel cost saving and 36,000-ton carbon emission reduction over 5 years.
CSB Hope
China - 2015
With Jotun’s premium polyurethane topcoat Hardtop AX it was easy to achieve a glossy finish in one coat.
Penguin Arrow, Gearbulk
China - 2015
Penguin Arrow was the first ship protected with Jotun’s Hull Performance Solutions (HPS).
SeaDream II
Portugal - 2015
Perfect finish easily achieved with Hardtop AX.
Trans Catalonia
Gdansk, Poland - 2015
Full opacity in one coat
Hardtop AX ensures full opacity in one single coat - even in signal/bright colours - on top of primers in colour Grey XO.
Umba, RPK Nord
China - 2015
Perfect finish easily achieved with Hardtop AX.
Xin Hai Kou
China - 2015
The container vessel is protected with Jotun’s premium coating system and implemented with Hull Performance Solutions.
Xue Long
Shanghai, China - 2014
The research vessel is protected by Jotun's abrasion resistant epoxy coating Marathon IQ.