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 ...
Danish offshore vessel company Maersk Supply Service has installed six mooring lines and six anchors for the DemoSATH floating wind project at the BIMEP open sea test site in the Biscay Bay off the ...
The use of High Modulus Synthetic Fiber (HMSF) mooring lines, including Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWP) lines continue to make one of the most dangerous evolutions aboard ships safer.
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 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 ...
French maritime contractor Bourbon has reeled in the job of delivering and hooking up the mooring spread for WindPlus’ 25MW WindFloat Atlantic floating wind array off Portugal. The assignment, which ...