by Team TheNavalArch | Nov 24, 2020 | Marine Operations, Maritime Industry, Seafastening, Ship Design and Construction, Ship Structural Engineering
Introduction Stanchions – a familiar term for mariners and ship designers. What are Stanchions? A stanchion is generally a vertical pipe or beam which is used to support some structural item or provide support rails on the deck. In ships, the most common type of...
by Team TheNavalArch | Oct 13, 2020 | Marine Operations, Maritime Industry, Seafastening
Introduction In an earlier article, we saw how to design stoppers for seafastening. Stoppers are items that are used to contain the translation movements (longitudinal and transverse directions) of a cargo on the deck/hold of a vessel. That brings us to the question –...
by Team TheNavalArch | Jul 5, 2020 | Marine Operations, Marine Transportation, Seafastening
Introduction More than 70% of the earth is covered by water, which makes shipping historically the easiest and cheapest way of connecting manufactures and customers across the globe and can be reasonably considered to be the artery of the global economy. An enormous...
by Team TheNavalArch | Apr 5, 2020 | Lifting Operations, Marine Operations, Marine Transportation, Ship Structural Engineering
Pad-eyes are one of the smallest and most universally used structural items in the maritime and Oil & Gas industry. They are used for a variety of purposes too: from a simple seafastening of a cargo to deck of a vessel, to complicated lifting operations involving...
by prem | Feb 8, 2020 | Marine Transportation
Introduction Lashing of a deck cargo on a ship involves different means and mechanisms to secure the cargo to the deck of the ship. This ‘securing’ is important to contain the movement of the cargo in view of the ship motions during the transportation. The simplest...
