Automated Mooring Inspired Engineering

State of the art technology MoorMaster™ is a vacuum-based automated mooring technology that can safely hold even the largest 450,000 dwt bulk vessels and 18,000 TEU container vessels, and eliminates the need for conventional mooring lines. Remote controlled vacuum pads, recessed in, or mounted on the quayside and attached to hydraulic actuated arms, extend, attach and moor ships in a few seconds. “Cavotec MoorMaster provided PHPA with a solution to a defined technical problem i.e. fitting a mini cape into a Panamax space. The system has proven to be a great success to date and allowed improved...

“Cavotec’s MoorMaster systems represent a major asset for our port developments by speeding up our operations and turnaround times, which in turn, help us improve the reliability and quality of service for the benefit of our customers. This mooring system is a unique and innovative technology that has been adopted by our company in order to support our strategy of integrating more efficient and reliable systems for our ferry services.” Hans Henrik Simonsen Fleet Manager, Danske Færger A/S “Cavotec has demonstrated great versatility, creativity and adaptability in developing and delivering a product...

Advantages & Benefits PORT • Faster vessel-turnaround enables larger number of ship calls. • Cargo and crew transfer can start earlier. • Increased cargo throughput. • Improved utilisation of tug fleet: tugs leave ships much earlier and return just prior to departure. • Mooring gangs not required. • Improved utilisation of terminal length if berthing distances reduced. • Vessels longer than berths can be moored with overhang, enabling substantial savings on quay extensions or dolphin investments. • Restricted waterways not disturbed. • In some cases, MoorMaster™ may eliminate the need for breakwater...

MoorMaster™ units & installations - Existing & future ■ No. of installations — No. of MoorMaster™ units Mooring Operations - Since 1998 ■ Yearly moorings — Accumulated no. of moorings

MoorMaster™ references MoorMaster™ first entered service in 1999 at a ferry application in New Zealand. At this point, MoorMaster™ was a bold challenge to thousands of years of conventional mooring methods. Today, MoorMaster™ is a widely accepted technology that has performed over 80,000 mooring operations, with a 100 per cent safety record, at ferry, bulk handling, Ro-Ro, container and lock applications all around the world. Cavotec engineers continue to develop MoorMaster™ and are perfecting new ways the technology can be used to improve safety, operational efficiency and realise infrastructure...

Berth 1, Salalah, Oman Container terminals Product: MM200C17 Type: Front mounted Capacity: 12 x 200kN = 240 tonnes Moorings: 3-4 per week Route: Global Vessel names: Various LOA: Container vessels up to 362m Operator: APM Terminals Owner: Port of Salalah In operation: Since 2009 MoorMaster™ automated mooring systems are in use at the Port of Salalah at two of the port’s six container berths, where they moor vessels of up to 362m LOA. The most recent installation has a holding force of 2,400 kN, provided by 12 x MM 200 units. The primary reason for the Port of Salalah to use vacuum mooring is...

Berth 6, Salalah, Oman Container terminals Product: MoorMaster™ 600 Type: Shore-based Capacity: tonnes 4 x 600kN = 240 Moorings: 3-4 times per week Route: Global Vessel names: Various LOA: to 350m Up Operator: APM Terminals Owner: Port of Salalah In operation: Since 2006 Following the success of trials carried out in 2005, the Port of Salalah installed four MoorMaster™ 600s at a berth servicing container vessels of up to 350 metres LOA and 130,000 tonnes displacement. MoorMaster™ has proven to be an extremely efficient tool for the control and reduction of vessel motion, dramatically improving...

Quay 16, Beirut, Lebanon Container terminals Product: MoorMaster™ 200C17 Type: Shore-based Capacity: 42 x 200kN = 840 tonnes Moorings: per week Expected 5-8 Route: Global LOA: Container ships up to LOA 350m Operator: Port of Beirut Owner: Port of Beirut In operation: Since Q1 2014 Having determined that it would be economically unviable to extend the existing breakwater to protect a new 500m quay extension, the Port of Beirut needed a solution to mitigate wave induced vessel motions at the unprotected berth. Numerical studies clearly demonstrated MoorMaster’s superiority over ropes in this kind...

Hov/Sælvig, Denmark Ferry/RoRo terminals Product: MoorMaster™400A10 Type: Shore-based Capacity: x 400kN = 80 tonnes 2 Moorings: per day 14 Route: Hov – Sælvig (Samsø) Vessel name: Kanhave LOA: 91m Operator: Færgen A/S Owner: Færgen A/S In operation: Since 2009 With short turnaround times and limited crew numbers, NFS sought to automate as many procedures as possible following the introduction of a new-build, 91 metre long passenger ferry running between Hov on the Danish mainland and Sælvig on the island of Samsø. The two MoorMaster™400s installed in each modified port now make mooring safe and...

Spodsbjerg/Tårs, Denmark Ferry/RoRo terminals Product: MoorMaster™400A10 Type: Shore-based Capacity: 400kN = 40 tonnes Moorings: per day 36 Route: Spodsbjerg – Tårs Vessel names: Lolland & Langeland LOA: 99m Operator: Færgen A/S Owner: Færgen A/S In operation: Since 2012 Following the succes of using MoorMaster™ automatic mooring on the Samsø route, Færgen A/S implemented a MoorMaster™ 400 system in the 2 ferry ports, Tårs and Spodsbjerg, connecting the islands of Lolland and Langeland. The fast mooring is secured with the use of a kingpin solution combined with a MM400 unit taking care of the...