BRAND-NEW
COSCO’s Fleet to Be Coated with Nippon Paint Marine’s FASTAR® Antifouling Nippon Paint Marine will apply its new antifouling system FASTAR® to COSCO’s fleet to provide high performance and improve drydock efficiency.
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OSCO Shipping has recently announced that it will have its entire
system,” stated Jun Ye, the M & R Sales Director for Nippon Paint Marine
VLCCs fleet coated with FASTAR®, the new antifouling system
in China. “With the current high freight rates, shipowners want to keep
developed by Nippon Paint Marine, once initial applications have been
their vessels trading for as long as possible. FASTAR® antifouling not
evaluated. FASTAR is a self-polishing, antifouling paint that includes a
only provides next level performance but improves drydock efficiency,
nano-domain resin structure designed to minimise the effects of seawater
reducing significantly the time required in drydock for paint work.”
temperatures and vessel speeds on the performance of the coatings.
The shipowner has chosen the newly introduced antifouling to allow
FASTAR will be applied also to the passenger ferry COSCO Star and the
its vessels to meet the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI)
56,000dwt bulk carrier Xin Liu Lin Hai: COSCO Star will dock at the COSCO
requirements.
Shanghai Dockyard in February for a FASTAR XI application while the
“We were keen to evaluate and assess the feasibility of Nippon Paint’s
bulker is currently scheduled to be coated with FASTAR® I in May at the
next generation antifouling for possible VLCC application. The coating’s
COSCO Guangzhou Dockyard.
potential to reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions by up to 8%
“COSCO Shipping has a long history of applying Nippon Paint Marine
is attractive and seen as a viable way towards meeting EEXI requirements.
antifouling to the hulls of its vessels as a way of improving propulsion
We also anticipate reduced paint volumes and quick drying time will result
efficiency and reducing emissions. Once the shipowner has verified the
in cost savings,” commented from COSCO Shipping.
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precise, predictable performance of FASTAR® on these two vessels, more vessels are expected to take advantage of this revolutionary coating
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