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  2. Mooring - Wikipedia

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    Screw-in moorings are a modern method. The anchor in a screw-in mooring is a shaft with wide blades spiraling around it so that it can be screwed into the substrate. The advantages include high holding-power-to-weight ratio and small size (and thus relative cheapness).

  3. Berth (moorings) - Wikipedia

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    Finger piers can also be used for dangerous cargoes such as military cargo that can not be used with offshore berths because of the weight and equipment requirements. In these instances long finger piers may reach far offshore, with access for rail or other cargo-moving methods. Offshore berth Used when cargo-handling or storage can be hazardous.

  4. Messenger line - Wikipedia

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    A heaving line thrown from a ship to shore then used to pull the mooring warp from the ship to a bollard. [1] A light line installed inside a mast during manufacture, which is later used to reeve a halyard or pull an electrical cable into place. [2] A line used to lower a toolbag or equipment along a downline to a diver. [3]

  5. Single buoy mooring - Wikipedia

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    Single point mooring at Whiddy Island, Ireland Single-point mooring facility off Puthuvype, Kochi, India. 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.

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Mediterranean mooring. Also Med moor and Tahitian mooring. A method of mooring stern-to. merchant marine A collective term for all merchant ships registered in a given country and the civilians (especially those of that nationality) who man them; the ships and personnel in combination are said to constitute that country's merchant marine.

  7. Passage planning - Wikipedia

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    The plan includes leaving the dock and harbor area, the en route portion of a voyage, approaching the destination, and mooring, the industry term for this is 'berth to berth'. [1] According to international law, a vessel's captain is legally responsible for passage planning, [ 2 ] The duty of passage planning is usually delegated to the ship's ...

  8. Anchor - Wikipedia

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    Many modern moorings still rely on a large rock as the primary element of their design. However, using pure weight to resist the forces of a storm works well only as a permanent mooring; a large enough rock would be nearly impossible to move to a new location.

  9. Container port design process - Wikipedia

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    Mooring (watercraft) infrastructure at a port describes those structures that mooring lines from vessels can tie off to in order to prevent drifting along or away from the wharf face. The mooring structures are called cleat (nautical) or bollards, depending on their size and shape. Bollards are designed to handle much larger loads, and in turn ...