The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities have recently completed design and construction of several major ferry terminal improvement projects for the Alaska Marine Highway System that utilize large diameter, cylindrical shaped floating fenders. These vertically oriented floating fenders provide an energy absorbing breasting surface and a means for attachment of mooring lines. The fender floats up and down with the tide and the ship, allowing unattended line handling through daily tidal height variations that exceed 26-feet. The floating fenders offer an alternative means to safely breast and moor vessels for long periods of time where large tidal variations occur. This paper discusses the design parameters, construction features and functional characteristics of these floating fenders as they relate to the mooring of large ferry vessels. Case histories for three recently constructed ferry terminal facilities are provided.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Floating Rubber Fenders for All-Tide Moorage of Vessels


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    11th Triennial International Conference on Ports ; 2007 ; San Diego, California, United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2007-03-22




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    MOVABLE FLOATING MOORAGE

    MARANTIER FRÉDÉRIC M | European Patent Office | 2018

    Free access

    Revision of ISO17357: Ships and Marine Technology, Floating Pneumatic Rubber Fenders

    Sakakibara, Shigeki | British Library Online Contents | 2015


    FENDERS

    Online Contents | 1999


    RUBBER COMPOSITION FOR FENDERS AND FENDER

    TOGO MARI | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    Fenders

    Online Contents | 2005