{"id":11900,"date":"2017-03-17T08:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T08:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/?p=11900"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:27:18","slug":"sad-story-pipe-replacement-three-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/sad-story-pipe-replacement-three-times\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad Story of the Pipe Replaced Three Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div style=\"max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.6; font-family: inherit;\">\n\n  <div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11901 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/12.jpg\" alt=\"Pipe comparison\" width=\"362\" height=\"195\" style=\"max-width:100%; height:auto;\" \/>\n    <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p><strong>The pipe on the right<\/strong> was the original rubber coated pipe from a ship built in 1998, in Europe. It is coated in a seamless rubber coating and lasted a respectable 14 years.<\/p>\n  <p><strong>The pipe in the middle<\/strong> was fabricated in 2012 by a Chinese dockyard and coated with a seamed rubber coating. It lasted less than 2 years.<\/p>\n  <p>When the pipe in the middle sprung a leak in 2014, the wall thickness was so thin, Irwin Marine Services had to weld up in place an <strong>uncoated steel pipe<\/strong> \u2014 the one you see on the left.<\/p>\n  <p>The next voyage, Irwin Marine Services delivered and fitted a new properly coated pipe that remains in service until now.<\/p>\n\n  <div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 30px 0;\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAA3kAAAAJGRlN2E0MjJjLTEwOGQtNDgyMy05YWVkLTc4MjY4ZTFmZGRmZA.png\" alt=\"Irwin Marine pipe coating\" style=\"max-width:100%; height:auto;\" \/>\n    <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p>The reality is: during a scheduled 8\u201114 day docking in China, the dockyard cannot provide a properly coated pipe and typically will only offer galvanizing or painting.<\/p>\n  <p><strong>Irwin Marine can offer cost\u2011effective pipe coatings (rotational lining) on the tightest of schedules.<\/strong> We can also refurbish your pipes at a lower cost than the dockyard can renew. A pipe refurbished by Irwin Marine Services will last longer than any new pipe from a Chinese dockyard.<\/p>\n\n  <div style=\"background-color: #f5f5f5; padding: 12px 20px; border-left: 4px solid #0073aa; margin: 25px 0;\">\n    <p style=\"margin: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irwin Marine<\/a> is located in Shenzhen, China and provides service to all China Dockyards.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coating","category-ship-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irlservice.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}