Experimental Results of Ship-to-ship Stabilized Mooring System for Mobile Harbor

Jeong, Tae-Gweon; Lee, Yun-Sok; Chen, Chao; Kim, Se-Won

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2010;34(4):281-286.
Published online June 20, 2010.

Experimental Results of Ship-to-ship Stabilized Mooring System for Mobile Harbor

Tae-Gweon Jeong, Yun-Sok Lee, Chao Chen, Se-Won Kim

Abstract

A new concept of ocean transport system, called mobile harbor, was introduced as a feasibility study in Korea in 2009. Target of the mobile harbor is a short distance transport of containers with or without cargo handling cranes. Although the mobile harbor project has a lot of topics to deal with, this paper is to focus on only ship-to-ship stabilized mooring, which plays a key role in cargo handling. The ship-to-ship stabilized mooring system was developed and installed on board a barge of LOA 32m and breadth 12m. The dockside tests as sea test were carried out so as to ascertain whether the systems can work well to control the barge’s motion. The results of dockside test showed that the heave motion of the barge’s motion can be reduced by more than 45%.

Key Words: mobile harbor;mother ship;mobile harbor ship;ship-to-ship stabilized mooring system; positioning winch;embedment drag anchor