Dry dock days are among the most expensive a vessel owner buys, and coating work usually owns the critical path between blast and undocking. The vessels that leave on schedule settled their coating questions before arrival; this is the checklist their managers used.
Decisions to close before docking
Scheme first: full recoat or touch up and antifoul, decided from the last underwater inspection, not discovered at pressure wash. Product line second: staying with the incumbent system avoids compatibility studies; changing systems needs the coating manufacturers' compatibility position in writing. Colours, and the antifouling grade matched to the trading pattern, third. A vessel trading slow and warm fouls differently from one running hard; the grade should follow the profile.
Documents that must be on board
Last docking's coating report with consumption figures, which predicts this docking's quantities better than any calculation; the technical and safety data sheets for every product; and for classed tonnage, the IMO AFS declaration path covered earlier in this series.
Materials, staged not promised
Full scheme quantities plus a findings margin near 15 percent, on the ground before blast starts. Primer availability gates everything, because in Gulf humidity blasted steel wants first coat the same day. Confirm the supplier holds stock in country; see our turnaround planning guide for why paper stock is schedule risk.
The daily rhythm in dock
Blast to what can be primed today, record DFT as you go, and walk the film at each shift change with the yard and the paint supplier's representative. Disputes settled at the block line cost nothing; the same disputes at undocking cost days.
MENA Industrial Supplies supports dockings across Dubai and the UAE from local stock, same day quotations via the marine paint supplier page.