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A Single buoy mooring (SrM) (also known as single-point mooring or SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect for tankers loading or offloading gas or liquid products. SPMs are the link between geostatic subsea manifold connections and weathervaning tankers.
Swing moorings also known as simple or single-point moorings, are the simplest and most common kind of mooring. A swing mooring consists of a single anchor at the bottom of a waterway with a rode (a rope, cable, or chain) running to a float on the surface. The float allows a vessel to find the rode and connect to the anchor.
Hawser (/ ˈ h ɔː z ər /) is a nautical term for a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship. [1] A hawser is not waterproof, as is a cable. A hawser passes through a hawsehole, also known as a cat hole, [2] located on the hawse. [3]
As a verb bitt means to take another turn increasing the friction to slow or adjust a mooring ship's relative movement. [1] Mooring fixtures of similar purpose: A bollard is a single vertical post useful to receive a spliced loop at the end of a mooring line. [1] A cleat has horizontal horns. [4]
Mooring bollards, such as this one in the Hudson River, were the first type of bollard. The use of the term has since expanded. A bollard is a sturdy, short, vertical post. The term originally referred to a post on a ship or quay used principally for mooring boats.
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Three single-point mooring systems (SPM) were added in 2012, [10] each with a design rating of 800 thousand barrels (130,000 m 3) (kbbl) of oil per day, [11] and two more SPMs are planned to be operational by 2013 to increase total loading capacity to 6.4–6.6 Mbbl (1,020,000–1,050,000 m 3) of oil per day.