This comment assumes the equivalents of organisations listed here exist in OTU

Otherwise, I doubt port managment authorities will be paying ANY attention to anyone's hulls; the Navy looks after their own, and the commercial operators have it on their ballance sheet...as the bottom-of-the-list optional activity.

If the sci-fi writer who described hull surface as "pitted and scarred" was right, then outer hull maintenance is far from simple, and likely a service not provided at port facilities, which are mostly concerned about getting vessels in and out as quickly as possible.

Anything may be possible in the future, but it seems to me that performing hull maintenance while loading and unloading cargo is not going to happen. This is likely because of the concurrent contraband inspection.

Greg C

On 3 January 2016 at 14:28, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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On Sat, 1/2/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Rusting in space
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, January 2, 2016, 4:06 PM


 > On
 Jan 2, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Bill Rutherford <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
 wrote:
 >
 > So the
 free trader with a 200 or 300 year-old unstreamlined (for
 those who want to see how LEO or deeper space corrosion
 works) or streamlined (for those who want to speed the
 process a bit) small trader who isn't that keen on
 scrubbing and coating the hull (would this be called
 careening - not because the captain's hauling the ship
 out of water but because it's similar in concept?)

 I expect it’s part of the
 annual maintenance tasks. Frankly,  the effects of sitting
 on the starport tarmac for three days while loading cargo
 and doing pub crawls by the crew will have a far greater
 effect on everything on the exterior of the ship than it’s
 entire lifespan in vacuum.

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I can hear it now;

ClassC starport manager to 'newbie' freetrader capt on his first visit;

"Dude! Didn't you know better than to land here w/o first getting your hull treated?
Standard hulls just don't cut it on this world!"

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