SAFETY4SEA invited Veronika Aspelund, Vice President for Moorins Solutions at Wilhelmsen Ships Service in Oslo, to share her thoughts on key challenges related to mooring operations and what the industry should be doing to ensure safer mooring today and in the future.
The most dangerous situation during a mooring operation is the rope breaking. Everyone’s top priority should be to prevent that happening. Implementing best-practice procedures for mooring operations and equipment maintenance, as well as good training programs for vessel crews, is the best starting point. This should be combined with good-quality products with safety features from trusted vendors.
Since mooring ropes are designed with a certain strength that they should withstand, and will or should break