Siport21 is involved in the review of the mooring equipment design and compatibility studies of the first Spanish small-scale LNG carrier, the “Haugesund Knutsen”. The ship, owned by the shipping company Knutsen OAS, began operating in January. This new carrier, built by Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Armon in Gijon and flagged in Spain, has 92 metres…
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Siport21 has joined SLOM (Latin American Maritime Oil Terminals and Mono Buoys Association) in order to promote initiatives that lead to continuous improvement in the operational performance and management of the Maritime Oil & Gas Terminals. It will be a Class B Member, as a company providing services or goods for the terminals. The association…
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The specific conditions of the Pacif coast, with high wave energy content, generatea marked impact over moored ships at jetties or buoysystems. Although the usual waveconditionsdo not involve impressive wave heights, the dominant presence of longperiods (between 12 and 25 seconds) causes very significant interaction forces on the moored vessels. Due to these circumstances, high…
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