新加坡船东东太平洋航运公司（EPS）与加拿大石墨烯涂料专业公司Graphite Innovation＆Technologies（GIT）扩大合作，将在其船队上应用GIT的螺旋桨涂层。由GIT推出的XGIT-PROP涂层是一种以石墨烯为原料制备的螺旋桨涂层，能够保持船用螺旋桨表面的光滑，降低其清洗频率。XGIT-PROP在减少生物附着、提高船舶推进效率的同时，还能确保有害毒素和杀生物剂不会被释放到海洋中。这两家公司于一年前开始合作，EPS将XGIT-PROP应用在液化石油气船（LPG）“QUEBEC”轮的螺旋桨上，帮助改善其船舶性能，并保持了该船的船舶营运碳强度指标（CII）评级。因此，EPS决定扩大与GIT的合作，计划在2023年和2024年期间，为15艘进入干船坞的船舶进行涂装，以实现可持续发展。

Singapore-based ship management company Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS)revealed that it has teamed up with Canada-based coatings company Graphite Innovation & Technologies (GIT)to implement the propeller coating across its fleet. This graphene-based propeller coating had a powerful ability to maintaining smooth surface and reducing the need for propeller ‘polishings’. It is designed to improve vessel performance, reduce biofouling, and ensure no harmful toxins and biocides are released into the ocean. The two companies started working together a year ago. EPS applied XGIT-PROP on the propeller of an LPG tanker, QUEBEC. Since application, the vessel has seen improved vessel performance, and has maintained its CII rating. Because of that, EPS decided to expand the adoption of the technology and plans to apply the coating on 15 vessels drydocking in 2023 and 2024 while achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).