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 ...

Hear the one about the container ship that hauled a small truck into the harbor? Sounds kind of funny at first, maybe like a scene from a movie. But it actually happened earlier this year in Baltimore ...

Modern ships still rely on ropes to stay tied to the dock, but when those lines fail under load, the results can be deadly.

DNV GL has developed a solution that is designed to reduce the risk of offshore floating vessel mooring line failure going undetected by replacing physical sensors with a machine learning algorithm ...

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU – Federal officials say a yearling humpback whale off Hawaii has been freed from a life-threatening entanglement in mooring gear. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said a ...

NEWBURYPORT — Someone cut mooring lines on four boats in the American Yacht Club mooring field abutting Joppa Flats overnight Tuesday, with three of the boats found in the marsh off Salisbury early ...