REDUCING CATHODIC PROTECTION COSTS IN TANKERS Available to Purchase

The present low freights in the shipping industry have tended to produce a slackening off of interest in the latest developments in marine corrosion control, and cathodic protection in particular. Indeed, the amount of capital apportioned to the prevention of corrosion has been reduced in some cases so greatly as to cause the major cathodic protection companies to revise their systems to meet such cases, and a number of tanker owners themselves to apply their own anode systems, having a considerably reduced current density criterion than that suggested as being the minimum permissible by the more experienced operators.