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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...