Chemical ally

摘要

Charterers of chemical tankers, never the easiest people to please, are increasingly reluctant to use ships with hard coatings applied to their cargo tanks, according to some ship operators, brokers and surveyors. Problems with hard coatings on relatively new ships, less than five years old, where the flexing of the vessel has caused the MarineLine coating, which dries hard like glass, to crack thereby compromising the efficacy of the coating, has led charterers to refuse vessels with MarineLine coated tanks, said a senior executive from a major chemical tanker broker. MarineLine 784 is the most commonly found hard coating on chemical tankers and failures of this coating are causing owners, who are finding that their MarineLine coated ships are increasingly unwanted by their customers, to rethink their newbuilding strategy.