Driven by environmental regulations, keeping a clean hull is in vogue more than ever, but the business of maintaining a clean ...

Rhode Island only has a few precious months of peak boating season, and any setback can bite into your time on the water.

You might not think that keeping a boat hull smooth in the water has anything in common with keeping a scalpel clean for surgery, but there it does: in both cases you’re trying to prevent nat… ...

The company isn’t alone in using robots to combat maritime emissions. Norwegian chemicals giant Jotun A/S has a hull-cleaning robot called HullSkater, which travels with ships and cleans whenever they ...

The global Ship Hull Inspection Services market, valued at $12.1 billion in 2025, is projected to reach $16.4 billion by 2034 ...

Cruise ship passengers stranded at sea for days after 'biofoul' discovered. It has been required to undergo hull cleaning to remove the biofoul - a common accumulation of microorganisms, plants ...

New Zealand implemented its hull-cleaning rules in 2018, but for its first two years, authorities focused on education and helping ship operators meet requirements. Then the pandemic hit.

Meet the Aussie diver seeking $15m to scale the underwater cleaning drone business that’s proven to save ships fuel, can map reefs and double as a spy. Joseph Lam Hullbot's autonomous underwater ...

SINGAPORE – A 22-year-old Malaysian diver died on June 18 after he got entangled with a boat propeller while cleaning a ship’s hull at an anchorage off East Coast.