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 ...

Dr. Yongjin Kim, Principal Researcher (right), and Senior Researcher Dr. Young-ki Kim (left) from the Department of Reliability at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), who developed ...

DESCRIPTION: The Medium Capacity Mooring Spooler (MCMS) is a mobile, self-contained winch system that can be installed on ships of opportunity. The system is designed to deploy, tow, and recover ...

DESCRIPTION: The Large Capacity Mooring Spooler (LCMS) is a mobile, self-contained winch system that can be installed on ships of opportunity. The system is designed to deploy, tow, and recover ...

A new naval system is being deployed which is claimed to be able to moor huge ships in just seconds and with only one person operating it. The MoorMaster is a vacuum-based automated mooring system, ...

Scientists at the Ocean University of China developed a new methodology to identify optimized mooring models for offshore floating photovoltaic systems deployed in ultra-shallow waters. Their work ...