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Apr 26, 2012
Mooring Buoys for the Largest Cruise Ship in the World
Authors: Joergen Juhl, R. Harvey Sasso, Timothy Blankenship, Brian Joyner, and Bjorn JohansenAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
Abstract
A mooring system consisting of two catenary type opposing mooring buoys has been designed and installed in Labadee Bay, Haiti. The mooring system was designed to accommodate Royal Caribbean International's first Voyager Class cruise ship, Voyager of the Seas, which is the largest cruise ship in the world. The paper describes the field investigations, the analyses and numerical modeling performed for establishing the design loads, the engineering design, and finally the installation of the two mooring systems by a specialized anchor-handling vessel. The focus is on the specific challenges encountered in mooring a ship of this size in a very confined area, with soft soil conditions and sudden locally generated winds.
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Ports '01: America's Ports: Gateway to the Global Economy
Pages: 1 - 10
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© 2001 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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- Analysis (by type)
- Bays
- Bodies of water (by type)
- Business management
- Coastal engineering
- Coasts, oceans, ports, and waterways engineering
- Developing countries
- Engineering fundamentals
- Field tests
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic structures
- Models (by type)
- Mooring
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical models
- Ports and harbors
- Practice and Profession
- Seas and oceans
- Ships
- Tests (by type)
- Water and water resources
- Water management
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Joergen Juhl
Coastal Systems International, 464 S. Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33146
R. Harvey Sasso
Coastal Systems International, 464 S. Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Timothy Blankenship
Coastal Systems International, 464 S. Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Brian Joyner
Coastal Systems International, 464 S. Dixie Hwy, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Bjorn Johansen
Royal Caribbean International, 1050 Caribbean Way, Miami, Florida 33132-2096
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