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

7 October 2020

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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Maersk New Mooring Rope Design More Safe, Cuts Cost

4 August 2020

In a major development, shipping giant Maersk has announced that they will begin implementation of an innovation called Snap Back Arrestor (SBA) ropes on the mooring lines used to hold vessels in place while docked in port for loading and unloading, says a press release published on their website.

Why this new system?

Mooring is one of the most dangerous aspects of port and vessel operations. When a mooring rope holding a docked vessel snaps, the abrupt energy release can cause the rope to whip...

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Maersk To Launch SBA Ropes That Improves Vessel Mooring Safety

23 June 2020

Maersk to begin implementation of an innovation called Snap Back Arrestor (SBA) ropes.
SBA ropes will be used on the mooring lines used to hold vessels in place while docked in port.
Snapping of mooring lines can cause the rope to whip across the dock and ship at a speed of almost 500 MPH.
TIMM ROPES will develop the new mooring rope technology.
It features a special core that elongates more than the surrounding rope.
This will act to absorb and dampen the tremendous energy released when...

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Maersk employs new rope design to make mooring safer

15 June 2020

When a mooring rope holding a docked vessel snaps, the rope can whip across the dock and ship at almost 500 mph — more than twice the speed of a race car.

Mooring is one of the most dangerous pieces of port and vessel operations. In one case, a 602-foot bulk carrier fully loaded with petroleum coke ran aground in California after breaking free from its moorings.

To help hold vessels in place, Maersk has begun installing Snap Back Arrestor (SBA) ropes on the mooring lines.

Maersk chose Norwegian...

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