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We are no longer a coating supplier that applies paint and waits for the next maintenance event. We are there all the time. We look at [our customer's] ships on our screens every day, and we partner with them on managing operations as well, from our lens.”

Alexander Enström,

EVP, Marine Business,

Hempel Marine

Hempel the adoption of new technology. “It really comes down to data ger a coating supply that applies paint and waits for the next transparency: how can those ? rst movers that have seen the maintenance event. We are there all the time. We look at their bene? ts, can also be seen by the rest of the industry. It’s about ships on our screens every day, and we partner with them on education, transparency and truly understanding the big value managing operations as well, from our lens.” that is there from a coatings perspective, and [showing] how the full industry can tap into that value.” PENETRATING THE LAYERS

Quantifying the data needs to be ship speci? c, said Enström, The process by which ships are owned, operated and and it needs to be true data measure. “For us as an industry, the maintained often involves multiple layers, and Enström es- ? rst step was, with other suppliers, to establish measurability.” timates that only about 30% of the world ? eet is “under the

It’s a ‘known known’ that a cleaner hull moves more ef- same roof” with all three stakeholders – owner, manager, ? ciently through the water, cutting fuel burn and emissions. operator. Though a minority, these generally are the early “A standard was established called ISO 19030 that helped us adopters of new technologies he said, as they are fully re- to align methodology, measure performance, which is linked sponsible for paying for fuel, adhering to CII, and respon- to the coating performance. So our claims around savings is sible for maintenance.

backed by a methodology and can be veri? ed ship-by-ship.” “It's such a scattered industry,” said Enström. “Key for us

Hempel also offers services to collect data together with ship is linking these different stakeholders in an ef? cient way,” as owners and operators to justify performance claims. different companies in different countries having a hand in

Another digitalization evolution that plays into coating per- one ship presents a barrier for technology adoption. formance is ship tracking, and Enström said Hempel tracks But he’s starting to see change.

its customers ships – and in fact the world ? eet – daily, to “What we see right now is that it’s not only the integrated gather information on where they trade, and the type of waters companies that are adopting new technologies. With the new they sail. “It's about verifying what we're saying, but also de- regulations, we see a much wider interest from [a variety of] veloping solutions that is possible to innovate much faster in companies. That makes me very positive that the industry will the digital space. In [the ship tracking] sense, we are able to improve fast, because there are regulatory measures now that move to be a closer partner to our customers. We are no lon- drives that consolidation and knowledge sharing."

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