Preliminary analysis of proposed ship docking systems for a designed floating dock

Abstract

In this paper are presented alternative design concepts and their comparative analysis of ship docking systems for a floating dock. The floating dock was designed by a team of Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology, Gdańsk University of Technology, within the frame of the ECOLOGICAL DOCK E!2968 project. The presented design solutions differ to each other mainly by the kinds of applied devices: in the first case these are mooring winches and docking cars, whereas in the other – rope warping winches. For both the specified systems a comparative analysis was carried out in which their features, complexity of construction and associated costs were among other accounted for. In the opinion of the authors the presented analysis may help the principal designer of the dock in making choice of a more suitable system.