Marine rope and rigging supply — İzmit & Dilovası

Tanker terminals mean documentation, not just rope

At a liquid bulk jetty the mooring arrangement is inspected before cargo transfer starts, and a line that cannot be traced to a certificate is a finding. In practice that means the paperwork travels with the rope: material, construction, diameter, length, batch, tested break load and the date the line entered service.

This is where MEG4 terminology becomes practical rather than academic. The vessel's mooring management plan works from the ship design MBL, and the line is selected so that its line design break force sits in the correct relationship to it. We quote using those terms because that is how the superintendent has to record it.

Tails, chafe protection and fairlead wear

İzmit jetties see passing-ship effects and surge from traffic in a narrow gulf. That is exactly the condition a mooring tail is designed for: a short high-elongation section that absorbs a movement the main line would otherwise transmit as a peak load.

The other recurring İzmit item is chafe protection. Constant small movement at the fairlead does more cumulative damage than any single heavy load, and it is the cheapest failure to prevent.

• Nylon mooring tails matched to the main line specification
• Chafe protection sleeves for the fairlead and the eye
• Line record cards and break load certificates supplied with every line
• Replacement lines quoted against the existing mooring plan

A note on terminology

We supply mooring lines with documentation supporting MEG4 requirements. We do not describe products as OCIMF approved or OCIMF certified, because OCIMF does not operate a product approval scheme of that kind — a certificate accompanying a mooring line is the manufacturer's and the test house's statement, not an OCIMF endorsement.