by Satzuma-Creative | Jul 15, 2019 | Archive
White paint doesn’t look clean for long. Yet ship coatings of a darker hue absorb more heat, increase the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) requirement and, consequently, electrical load, resulting in higher fuel consumption and emissions. So,...
by Satzuma-Creative | Jul 5, 2019 | Archive
Deck coating specialists Bolidt, market leaders in the cruise flooring sector, opened up their new Rotterdam Innovation Centre for a preview by journalists. The state-of-the-art building adds to Bolidt’s impressive campus, with a striking15m-high partly transparent...
by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 5, 2019 | Archive
BIO-UV Group, the pioneer in UV-based water treatment technologies, and Norwegian marine engineering and technical services provider TECO Tech have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at providing shipowners with a complete turnkey solution for the BIO-SEA advanced...
by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 5, 2019 | Archive
Last month a Hydrex team carried out an underwater stern tube seal repair on a tanker berthed in Algeciras. The ship was suffering from an oil leak and no drydock was available close by. The divers replaced the damaged seals underwater using one of the company’s...
by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 5, 2019 | Archive
by Hydrex Recently there has been a lot of discussion about biofouling. A word coined to describe marine life attached to ship hulls, it is seen as a ship speed breaker, a destructive factor to hull coatings and a cause of alien invasive species. To call it fouling is...
by Satzuma-Creative | Jun 5, 2019 | Archive
Ahead of the incoming Global Sulphur Cap restrictions that will impose a ban on all marine fuels with >0.50% sulphur content from January 1, 2020, market leading developers of smart water quality monitoring technology Rivertrace Limited, have published a technical...
