How Marine Fenders Are Used For Ship Berthing?

One of the primary factors -external to the ship’s mechanical or electrical systems – that come in to effect while berthing a vessel is the marine fender system. An efficient fender system saves the ship from external damages that would have otherwise occurred to the hull plates or to the berth or jetty, which comes in contact with the steel plates of the ship.

How Ship Berthing is done Using Marine Fenders?

Theoretically speaking, a ship is to be brought at a negligible speed to the berth. A small increase in speed will give rise to an exponential jump in the momentum – which essentially is the product of mass and velocity. For example the displacement tonnage of 10,000 when multiplied by a speed of one knot has half the momentum when multiplied by a speed of two knots. The energy of impact is twice, thrice, four times and so on with every knot of increase of speed.

Now, when it comes to practice the speed always cannot be restricted to bare minimum, owing to certain conditions