I think that the necessity of getting the ship safely off the planet would necessitate that the condition of the hull be taken into consideration.
But then anything is possible.
Maybe the goundside authorities don't care very much about it & just accept that, every so often, there'd be another 'pile-up'?

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On Sat, 1/2/16, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Rusting in space
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, January 2, 2016, 9:02 PM

 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

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 January 2016 at 14:28, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
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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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