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Groupe Ocean ice tug to be hard coated with Subsea Industries hull paint
SUBSEA Industries Ecospeed hard coating will be applied to the hull of Groupe Ocean's ice-going tug Ocean Taiga, which is nearing completion at the Industrie Ocean shipyard in Ile-aux-Coudres, Quebec.
The ship will be operating in highly abrasive waters in ecologically sensitive areas, so it is important for the owner to have a hull a coating system that protects the marine environment and vessel.
"Chipping an Ecospeed hard coating almost never happens but when it does, there is no environmental damage, no sediment pollution," said managing director David Flood of Jastram Technologies, the commercial representative for Subsea Industries in Canada.
Subsea Industries will also apply the advanced hull protection system to the existing Ocean Ross Gaudreault tug, at Groupe Ocean's shipyard in Quebec.
The Ocean Taiga, the second 100 tonne bollard pull ice class 1A Super FS escort tug, will join first of class Ocean Tundra, which was coated in 2013 with an Ecospeed application. So far nine vessels in the Groupe Ocean fleet have been hard coated with Ecospeed.
"Its first experience with Ecospeed on the Ocean Raymond Lemay was deemed a huge success. When the vessel's hull was water-jet cleaned this summer after more than 60 months in service, the hull coating showed no sign of paint degradation," Mr Flood said.
The ship will be operating in highly abrasive waters in ecologically sensitive areas, so it is important for the owner to have a hull a coating system that protects the marine environment and vessel.
"Chipping an Ecospeed hard coating almost never happens but when it does, there is no environmental damage, no sediment pollution," said managing director David Flood of Jastram Technologies, the commercial representative for Subsea Industries in Canada.
Subsea Industries will also apply the advanced hull protection system to the existing Ocean Ross Gaudreault tug, at Groupe Ocean's shipyard in Quebec.
The Ocean Taiga, the second 100 tonne bollard pull ice class 1A Super FS escort tug, will join first of class Ocean Tundra, which was coated in 2013 with an Ecospeed application. So far nine vessels in the Groupe Ocean fleet have been hard coated with Ecospeed.
"Its first experience with Ecospeed on the Ocean Raymond Lemay was deemed a huge success. When the vessel's hull was water-jet cleaned this summer after more than 60 months in service, the hull coating showed no sign of paint degradation," Mr Flood said.
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