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Plan your dry docking to ensure that the 40% of your vessel below the waterline continues to contribute to performance throughout the next five years – helping you reduce costs, meet regulatory demands, support sustainability goals and stay commercially flexible.

Hempel’s vessel-specific assessment supports a data-driven evaluation of multiple dry docking and coating strategies. By understanding the implications of each scenario, you can optimise decision-making for long-term performance – with lasting returns, not just a new layer of paint.

Our vessel-specific assessment combines advanced, data-driven modelling with practical experience from over 6,000 real-world hull coating applications.

Working closely with you, our Hull Performance Solutions Managers model different dry docking and coating scenarios to show the impact of each choice – including total cost of ownership, payback period, impact on regulatory requirements such as CII, EU ETS and biofouling rules, as well as key sustainability drivers.

The result is a biofouling management scenario tailored to your operational goals – with clear recommendations on coating selection, biofouling protection, monitoring plans and in-water maintenance.

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Our vessel-specific assessment is based on a robust framework developed by Hempel’s maritime and coating experts. It combines advanced scientific modelling with real-world operational insights to deliver tailored performance recommendations.

The framework is outlined in detail in our whitepaper Navigating Energy Efficiency Dilemmas in a decarbonisation era – which demonstrates how it can be used as a decision-making tool for selecting the best energy efficiency measures for your vessels.

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