Mooring Analysis for Jimah Coal Unloading Berth

Overview

Customer: Taisei Corporation 

Country: Malaysia 

Project Location: Mukim Jimah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Solutions

We were appointed by Taisei Corporation to carry out a mooring analysis for 200,000 DWT and 60,000 DWT bulk carriers and a 8,000 DWT barge at Jimah Coal Unloading Jetty.

The layout of the berth, metocean data, bathymetry details were provided by the customer.

Benefit

Scope of work for the mooring analysis was as follows:

1. Set up the model for the berths using the drawings and initial mooring arrangements received from the client;
2. Carry out the mooring analysis for the range of design vessels, using extreme environmental site condition based on metocean data provided by the client;
3. Determine the mooring loads on fenders and bollards, vessel excursions and the mooring lines tensions;
4. Based on the results of the analysis, propose a mooring arrangement for all design vessels.