Trelleborg offers docking and mooring guidance

The whitepaper, The Quest for Quality, explores the relationship between cost and quality and explains why cheap equipment could be costly for port owners and operators in the long term, while the 17-minute webinar — presented by Trelleborg Marine Systems sales and marketing manager Hani William — builds on the issues brought up in the document.

In the paper, Trelleborg Marine Systems looks at why mooring operations are so high risk, why product quality is vital to lowering risk and improving safety and why product selection and variation can negatively affect safety.

How to guarantee quality through compliance, how the reliability and efficiency of the mooring operation can be improved through quality and which rules and standards to consider when specifying and buying mooring equipment are also covered in the document.

The webinar sees Mr William explore the best practice methodologies that suppliers need to adhere to in order to guarantee that docking and mooring solutions are fit for purpose.

According to Mr Williams, mooring operations are high risk and the insurer and risk management firm UK P&I Club added that in the past two decades in the UK, 58% of injuries happened during mooring, with 26% because of equipment failure.

Additionally, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority found that 62% of 227 reported incidents between 2010 and 2014 were connected to equipment failures or design shortfalls, with 51% of the identified design and equipment safety factors the result of a parted mooring line, Mr William claimed.

“Clearly, poorly-designed, poorly-considered or low-quality products ultimately risk the safety of personnel, the efficiency of operations and increase total cost of ownership,” he said.

To read the whitepaper, click here. For the webinar, click here.