SOLUTIONS FOR

Maritime storage facilities

TACKLING UNCONTROLLED HUMIDITY
IN MARITIME ENVIRONMENTS

Equipment used in commercial and naval maritime operations has an inevitable tendency to get wet – whether from weather or the whole operating environment.

If you put such often-expensive equipment away wet, it can easily get spoiled and damaged, and serviceability suffers.

Controlled humidity means
greater availability for operations

Humidity challenges for shipboard storage

Equipment used aboard ships and boats (of all kinds and all sizes) has a natural tendency to get wet – and because of the operating environment there’s rarely any easy way to get that wet equipment dry again.

If this gear – large or small, from hawsers, ropes, sails, fenders and protective clothing at one practical end to helicopters, launches, drones and minesweeping equipment at the high-tech end – is put away wet, it encourages the growth of mould and bacteria. Which quickly affects quality, durability and serviceability.

Seawater also contains corrosive salts. Any pooling of water and high levels of humidity in enclosed spaces are a prime source of corrosion of surfaces, fittings and equipment – often in difficult-to-access places, like lockers, tanks and tucked-away cavities

Eliminating the problem

Corrosion flourishes in high-humidity, enclosed spaces, and especially so in the presence of salt-laden sea water. And once structures, fittings and equipment have begun to deteriorate, it’s usually expensive and difficult to do much about it.

Equipment put away and stored wet quickly begins to smell musty, and sometimes to deteriorate because of the effects – often hardly visible – of mould and bacteria.

That’s why prevention is much better than cure. Cotes dehumidifiers make it much easier to do away with corrosion issues of this kind of by controlling the dew point of the air. The basic laws of physics mean corrosion cannot occur if relative humidity is kept below 65% at 20^oC.

This enables you to completely abolish with any humidity-related corrosion problems you may be encountering in any kind of maritime storage setups.

How you benefit

Better control of air conditions in areas where you shelter, store and work on maritime equipment
Prevent humidity-related damage in structures, fittings and equipment
Greater equipment availability and serviceability
Longer service life, lower overall operating costs and better return on investment
Reduced service and maintenance costs