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 ...

Lankhorst Offshore reports it has been awarded a contract by SBM Offshore to supply the deepwater mooring lines for the Liza Unity Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for ExxonMobil’s ...

In January 2008, the COSPEARL LAKE became the world’s first VLCC vessel to be 100% equipped with mooring lines made with Dyneema®. There were, in total, 22 lines brought on board. Twenty were ...

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 ...

Tension Buoy from Fred. Olsen 1848 is enabling floating solar arrays to ride water-level swings in reservoirs and dams ...

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 ...