Shipshave - "Klaveness' experience with Shipshave "ITCH" - 5% fuel reduction"

We know that fouling on a vessel's hull creates friction which decreases fuel performance. We are getting familiar with the use of sophisticated robots, rather than human divers, which crawl over the hull and clean it with brushes. In this webinar we explore the use of a much less complex and expensive device, the "ITCH" from Stavanger company Shipshave, to keep the hull clean.
The "ITCH" does not have any active mechanical cleaning components, as the robotic devices do. It can be used frequently by crew to remove light fouling, which might be called slime. By doing this, it can prevent the growth of heavier fouling. Perhaps it means the hull only requires a conventional robotic cleaning in the parts of the hull ITCH cannot cover once a year, rather than every 6 months, so a big saving.
We will hear about a customer's experience with the Shipshave ITCH in this webinar, Torvald Klaveness of Oslo, which operates and manages 16 combination carriers, and is using the device on NINE of them.
Anders Mjølsnes Sørheim, sustainability and CO2 performance manager, shows some videos from a camera fitted onboard an ITCH device which show it cleaning. He also shows how Klaveness aims to quantify the benefits, and that they can be 5 per cent reduction in fuel consumption.
He explains how the biggest challenge is engaging the crew and master in the cleaning.
Then we will hear more about ITCH from Eirik Eide, chief commercial officer and co-owner of Shipshave. The device can be used with any coating, it records a video which can be viewed later to monitor the slime and its removal.

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