Safety management
Has a safety officer been designated and trained to undertake this role?
Are the ship’s officers familiar with the operation of fire fighting, life saving and other emergency equipment?
Is personal protective equipment (PPE) such as boiler suits, safety footwear, eye and ear protection, safety harness and chemical protective equipment etc. provided and as [...]
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No Comments »Bight- A loop form by doubling back a rope upon itself.
Bitts – Vertical post or bollards mounted in pairs around which a line can be secured.
Bollard- A vertical post to which the eye of a mooring line can be attached.
Breast lines- Mooring lines leading ashore as nearly perpendicular as possible in a ships fore and [...]
Posted in Mooring Tags: barges, berth, body of water, bollards, breaking load, bulwark, bunkers, capability, carpenter, carrying capacity, composite structure, deadweight, drum fire, elastic elongation, elasticity, extreme length, flake, foe, forward motion, good engineering practice, heading, horizontal currents, horizontal plane, hoses, jaws, loading arms, long waves, messenger line, metric tons, mooring line, mooring system, natural fiber rope, oil transfer, oscillation, pawl, petroleum product, poop, prevailing wind, rudder, safe working load, safety factor, sea island, ship loading, ships, ships deck, single point mooring, smit bracket, spring lines, stern lines, stock length, synthetic fiber, tankers, tension, towing head, vertical post, waterline, wear and tear, winch 1 Comment »The elasticity of mooring line is a measure of its ability to stretch under load. Under a given load an elastic line will stretch more than a stiff line. Elasticity plays an important role in the mooring system for several reasons:
High elasticity can absorb higher dynamic loads. For these reason [...]
Posted in Mooring Tags: berth, boats, diameter wire, dynamic loads, elasticity, elongation, hoses, kinetic energy, loading arms, material construction, mooring line, mooring lines, mooring system, orientation, polyp, principle, relative difference, ships, spring lines, transfer operations No Comments »
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