APC announces further orders
01 Nov 2001
Anticorrosion company Advanced Polymer Coatings says its polymer-based tank protection system MarineLine has been specified for the cargo tanks of 10 chemical tanker new buildings to be constructed or converted in Turkey. These range in size from two 1,450 dwt chemical tankers for Holland?s Unifleet, to be constructed by the RMK Marine shipyard, to two 29,990 dwt chemical tankers from UM Shipyard for Fairfield Chemical Tankers of the USA. Other Turkish yards involved include Celik Tekne (5,000 dwt chemical tanker for Medimar, Italy), Gem-Yat (3,500 dwt chemical tanker for Simonsen APS of Denmark, plus two 3,500 dwt tankers for Turkey?s Atlas Group), and Gisan Gemi shipyard (3,500 dwt acid carrier for Fatoglu of Turkey). The coating has also been specified for a 14,000 dwt chemical carrier to be constructed by Portugal?s Viana do Castelo shipyard and a 35,000 dwt tanker under construction at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in Korea.
