Mooring Accident

[Answer] What’s the Safest Way of Mooring Ships?

Faulty mooring often causes mishaps and accidents, and hence mooring is a critical aspect of safety in the shipping industry. Keeping this in mind, Prosertek has highlighted in detail the best standard mooring procedures and we are covering that in today’s challenge corner.

Mooring is a procedure to anchor the ship to a fixed or floating element and keep it connected during loading or unloading operations. Safe mooring must withstand several forces, such as wind, the current, the tide and waves.

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Container Ship Breaks Away from Its Mooring!

Container ship broke off her moorings and drifted to the middle of the river, reports Maritime Bulletin.

What happened?

Container ship MAERSK SIHANOUKVILLE broke off her moorings at Chittagong port, Bangladesh, on May 6. 

The ship was taken under control by port tug only after she drifted to the middle of the river.

Cause and damage reported

The ship was taken back to berth, without any trouble. It was reported that there were no  damages or container loss. 

Strong wind and current are believed to be...

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Mooring Line Snap From Main Deck Handrail Fatally Injures Officer

According to a report published in the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, on 22 May 2017, the second officer on the bulk carrier Nord Quebec was fatally injured during a mooring accident while the vessel was berthing at section 16 of the Port of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. There was no damage to the vessel, and no pollution was reported.

Summary of the incident

On 17 May 2017, the Nord Quebec departed in ballast condition from Port Alfred, Quebec, and proceeded to the anchorage off...

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