Hull Performance
Hull Performance
DRIVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY THROUGH
HIGH PERFORMANCE HULL COATINGS
OVERVIEW
Your choice of hull coating can significantly affect the efficiency and performance of your vessel.
Ship owners and operators face significant pressures to improve vessel performance, optimise efficiencies, reduce costs, as well as accelerate a pathway to decarbonization and sustainability while also ensuring compliance in a market of increased and more fragmented regulation.
Nippon Paint Marine has continuously brought to market next generation, award-winning hull coatings that help our customers improve operational efficiencies, reduce fuel costs and emissions and remain compliant; coating technologies like AQUATERRAS, the world’s first low-friction biocide-free self-polishing coating, and A-LF-SEA and FASTAR, our unique ‘water trapping’ antifouling paints within our new HydroSmoothXTTM range.
FEATURES
Proven performance
Through significant investment in R&D, continual data analysis, stringent testing processes as well as collaboration with academia and Class, our products are proven to deliver market leading results for customers, the shipping industry and the marine environment.
Impact on speed loss
Nippon Paint Marine’s speed loss performance claims have been independently validated by third-party vessel performance analytics company, Oceanix. Over a 60-month period, the following results were confirmed:
A-LF-SEA: 1.8% speed loss
FASTAR XI: 1.2% speed loss
AQUATERRAS: 1.0% speed loss
In comparison, a typical vessel, according to MARINTEK data, suffers an average speed loss of 5.9% over the same timeframe.
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Impact on fuel consumption
Next-generation coating solutions from Nippon Paint Marine are engineered to enhance operational efficiency and deliver proven reductions in fuel consumption, emissions, and overall operating costs:
A-LF-SEA
– Ultra-low friction, self-polishing antifouling coating
– Incorporates Nippon’s proprietary rheological control anticorrosive scheme
– Delivers efficiency gains of up to 12.3%
FASTAR
– Advanced low-friction, self-polishing antifouling coating
– Utilises a unique hydrophilic–hydrophobic nanodomain resin structure
– Delivers efficiency gains of up to 14.1%
AQUATERRAS
– The world’s first proven low-friction, biocide-free self-polishing coating
– Hydrophilic and hydrophobic micro-domain structures actively combine to naturally repel biological adhesion on the surface
– Delivers efficiency gains of up to 14.7%
Hull performance care
At Nippon Paint Marine, our offering goes beyond just the quality of the product, providing services that give you data on the environmental and commercial impact of our solutions, clear insight on the return on your investment, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations. Our aim is to always ensure the optimum performance of your vessel and continual customer satisfaction.
– Vessel operational voyage report
– Fuel savings analysis
– Speed loss analysis based on ISO 19030 standard
– Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII) calculation
– Return on Investment (ROI) proposal
Talk to our coatings advisors about how Nippon Paint Marine products can you improve your vessel performance. Contact us.
