MEET AMACORT

Who are we?

AMACORT (Antwerp Maritime Academy CORrosion Team)
consists out of a number of colleagues, all professor at the Antwerp Maritime Academy,
with a common interest in maritime corrosion and fouling.

This intense collaboration started in 2007 with an in situ assessment of the quantity and type of corrosion in the ballast tanks of merchant ships and still goes on today.

At this moment the group consist out of 4 members with a very heterogeneous background.

Kris De Baere (27-10-1958)
  • Captain foreign going
  • PhD in Nautical Sciences
  • Full Professor at the Antwerp Maritime Academy
  • Founder and coordinator AMACORT
Geert Potters (4-5-1976)
  • PhD in Biology/Plant Physiology
  • Assistant Professor at the Antwerp Maritime Academy
Remke Willemen (28-10-1976)
  • MSc in Nautical Sciences
  • Engineering degree in Maritime Technology
  • Conducting doctoral research in coating sustainability
  • Lecturer at the Antwerp maritime Academy
Raf Meskens (30-6-1968)
  • MSc in Nautical Sciences
  • Conducting doctoral research in innovative anti-fouling techniques
  • Lecturer at the Antwerp maritime Academy

Selection of AMACORT peer reviewed publications

2009: In situ study of ballast tank corrosion on ships: part 1
Verstraelen Helen, De Baere Kris, Schillemans Willy, Lemmens Lucien, Dewil Raf, Lenaerts Silvia, Potters Geert
Materials performance, National Association of Corrosion Engineers [Houston, Tex.], ISSN 0094-1492-48:10(2009), p. 48-51
2009: In situ study of ballast tank corrosion on ships: part 2
Verstraelen Helen, De Baere Kris, Schillemans Willy, Lemmens Lucien, Dewil Raf, Lenaerts Silvia, Potters Geert
Materials performance, National Association of Corrosion Engineers [Houston, Tex.], ISSN 0094-1492-48:11(2009), p. 54-57
2010: Impact of tank construction on corrosion of ship ballast tanks
De Baere Kris, Verstraelen Helen, Dewil Raf, Lemmens Lucien, Lenaerts Silvia, Nkunzimana Tharcisse, Potters Geert
Materials performance, National Association of Corrosion Engineers [Houston, Tex.], ISSN 0094-1492 -49:5(2010), p. 48-54
2013: Reducing the cost of ballast tank corrosion : an economic modeling approach
De Baere Kris, Verstraelen Helen, Rigo Philippe,dVan Passel Steven, Lenaerts Silvia, Potters Geert
Marine structures, ISSN 0951-8339-32(2013), p. 136-152
Full text (Publishers DOI): http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.marstruc.2012.10.009
2013: Study on alternative approaches to corrosion protection of ballast tanks using an economic model
De Baere Kris, Verstraelen Helen, Rigo Philippe, Van Passel Steven, Lenaerts Silvia, Potters Geert
Marine structures, ISSN 0951-8339-32(2013), p. 1-17 Full text (Publishers DOI): http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.marstruc.2013.02.003
2014: A field study of the effectiveness of sacrificial anodes in ballast tanks of merchant ships
De Baere Kris, Verstraelen Helen, Lemmens Lucien, Lenaerts Silvia, Dewil Raf, Van Ingelgem Yves, Potters Geert
Journal of marine science and technology, Society of Naval Architects of Japan, ISSN 0948-4280-19:1(2014), p. 116-123
2016: Assessment of corrosion resistance, material properties, and weldability of alloyed steel for ballast tanks
Kris De Baere , Helen Verstraelen , Remke Willemen , Jean-Pierre Smet , Jérôme Tchoufang Tchuindjang , Jacqueline Lecomte-Beckers , Silvia Lenaerts, Raf Meskens, Hwan Gyo Jung , Geert Potters.
Journal of marine science and technology, Society of Naval Architects of Japan, J Mar Sci Technol (2016).
doi:10.1007/s00773-016-0402-1, p. 1-24
2016: The economics of a long term coating
Remke Willemen, Helen Verstraelen, Raf Meskens, Deirdre Luyckx, Koen Vastmans, Silvia Lenaerts , Geert Potters, Kris De Baere.
Submitted 10-2016 to the International Journal of Maritime Engineering and awaiting comments of the reviewers
Interested in our present and future AMACORT projects?