Jotun has actually authorized the very first business agreement for container vessels with its ground-breaking Jotun Hull Skating Solutions (HSS). The agreement was authorized with international container delivery and also logistics leader MSC, Mediterranean Shipping Company.

MSC, a business dedicated to purchasing decarbonising its procedures, will certainly set up the Jotun HullSkate r, the very first robot innovation that has actually been developed for positive cleansing, and also the particularly created high-performance SeaQuantum Skate antifouling as components of the Hull Skating Solutions, on the 14,000 TEU MSC EVA later on this year. The option will certainly after that proactively function to make certain an “always clean” vessel hull, without biofouling, ideal performance, decreased gas prices and also dramatically reduced CARBON DIOXIDE exhausts.

Proactive technique

Jotun revealed HSS to the marketplace in March this year. Designed to assist shipowners dealing with one of the most extreme biofouling difficulties, it integrates the antifouling and also robot positive cleaner, housed onboard the picked vessel, with positive problem surveillance, premium technological solution, and also efficiency and also solution degree assurances. Jotun drivers manage the HullSkate r by means of a 4G link, performing cleansing and also assessments according to private vessel routines created with an exclusive formula and also large information.

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It is an one-of-a-kind positive cleansing option, supplying distinct outcomes. This, as Alberto Genovesi– Marine Global Key Account Manager, Performance Coatings, Jotun– clarifies, instantaneously interested MSC’s need to buy game-changing cutting-edge innovation.

Win- win for sector

“MSC is not only a market leader, but it is also leading the way in terms of exploring innovative new solutions to meet the IMO’s goals of decarbonising shipping,” he comments. “We have worked with them as a partner to provide premium anti-fouling coatings to their advanced fleet over many years and knew that HSS would chime with their ambitions to deliver both improved environmental performance and enhanced efficiency and cost control for business stakeholders. HSS is a clear win-win in that respect.”

MSC EVA will certainly set up HSS at GWD Guangzhou Shipyard in China later on in 2020, at the very same time as it goes through course revival and also scrubber installment. The vessel’s adaptable cruising pattern, with direct exposure to varying water temperature levels and also settings, brings about its extreme biofouling difficulty.

Jotun thinks that if all ships dealing with such difficulties embraced the HSS positive technique– cleaning up hulls prior to biofouling holds and also consequently getting rid of linked drag and also gas intake– maritime CARBON DIOXIDE exhausts can be decreased by a minimum of 40 million lots each year.

Sustainable vision

“We are acutely aware that the shipping industry needs to adopt innovative solutions to meet ambitious environmental goals,” states Giuseppe Gargiulo, Head of Newbuildings, MSCMediterranean Shipping Company “We think HSS will certainly assist fix the issue of biofouling, corresponding to solid advantages for the environment– with decreased exhausts and also reduced spread of intrusive types– and also much better outcomes for our service, clients and also culture. This is the personification of what we’re seeking to attain at MSC.

“Clean hulls are only one piece of the jigsaw when it comes to delivering a more sustainable shipping industry, but a central piece nonetheless. MSC is committed to exploring and trialing new scalable solutions to minimise overall environmental impact, for both our business and the shipping industry as a whole.”

HSS has actually been created over numerous years and also given market by Jotun together with KONGSBERG. Comprehensive screening has actually been occurring on vessels, in collaboration with leading shipowners (such as MSC) and also at chosen ports worldwide. Common for MSC and also all the companions are their international impact and also their concentrate on growth for a lasting future.

The Jotun HullSkate r, which makes use of magnetic wheels to hold on to vessel hulls, functions to get rid of private germs and also biofilm prior to macro-fouling expands. At such a beginning, fouling can be gotten rid of without danger of damages to, or disintegration of, finishing neither brushes. This not just provides peak efficiency, and also endless still days for shipowners, however lessens the demand for responsive cleansing, reducing prices, ecological danger and also enhancing fleet adaptability.

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