The Chinese port of Qingdao has activated an automatic vacuum mooring system for container ships that eliminates the use of ...

The mooring line can be made up of synthetic fiber rope, wire and chain or a combination of the three. Environmental factors - wind, waves and currents - determine which materials make up the mooring ...

The introduction of new and larger vessels, Q-Flex and Q-Max, and new, often more exposed terminals becoming operational have changed mooring dynamics. The need to maintain workers’ safety at all ...

Tension Buoy from Fred. Olsen 1848 is enabling floating solar arrays to ride water-level swings in reservoirs and dams ...

Lankhorst Offshore reports it has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore to supply the deepwater mooring lines for the Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for ExxonMobil’s ...

In January 2008, the COSPEARL LAKE became the world’s first VLCC vessel to be 100% equipped with mooring lines made with Dyneema®. There were, in total, 22 lines brought on board. Twenty were ...

Offshore moorings have a long tradition in the oil and gas industry. Even though most offshore mooring systems feature similar components, they differ a lot in design, depending on the bathymetries, ...

Hallin Marine completes replacement of mooring lines beneath the floating production, storage and offloading vessel HYSY111 in China. Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, reported Monday ...

The cost of anchoring floating wind arrays at sea could be slashed in half leading to “tremendous” capital savings in the construction of the sector’s first utility-scale projects, if synthetic ...

The cost of floating wind power could be cut further by developing new-generation mooring technologies, a joint industry project (JIP) backed by the Scottish government has found. The nine-company JIP ...

The front of Airlander 10 hit the ground on its return to Cardington Airfield The world's longest aircraft - the £25m Airlander 10 - crash-landed after climbing to an excessive height because its ...