The most comprehensive assessment of power requirements for a new ship is obtained by conducting experiments with...
Fruit and vegetables can be transported in a nitrogen reach atmosphere in order to slow down the ripening process...
Designed by Delta Marine, of Istanbul, the 11,000dwt combined molten suplhur and bitumen tanker is one of only...
The attempt of a force to turn a body. It is usually measured by the product of the force and the length of lever.
The product of the mass and the square of its perpendicular distance from the axis considered, which is summed...
The moment which will try to return a ship to upright position when she is inclined.
Act of checking equipment and surroundings constantly in order to detect changes.
A system designed to supervise the operational status of machinery or systems by means of instruments which provide...
Workstation from where equipment and environment can be checked constantly.
“The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer”, 1987, and the respective adjustments/amendments...
A large opening through the deck and bottom of drill ships, diving support vessels or well intervention vessels...
Securing a ship at a pier or elsewhere by several lines or cables to limit her movement.
A novel document with index and characteristics of machinery, equipment, shipboard fittings and ropes available...
The geometric arrangement of mooring lines between the ship and the berth. See also Arrangement of chocks and bitts...
Mooring drums may be either split or undivided. For either type of drum, the diameter should be 16 times the wire...
Mooring equipment includes mooring winches, anchor windlasses, chain stoppers, fairleads and capstans.
Bollards and bitts, fairleads, stand rollers and chocks used for the normal mooring of the ship and similar components...
Lines (or cables) used to secure a ship at a berth. Mooring lines should be arranged as symmetrically as possible...
The capability of a mooring system to resist external forces on the ship.
Number of mooring lines by line breaking strength.