Windy weather caused two MSC Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line ships to break from their moorings. MSC Sinfonia broke away from the moorings at the pier while in port in Syracuse, Italy, on Saturday.

Strong winds caused a massive military cargo ship to break away from its moorings in South Baltimore on Monday afternoon, ...

Even modern ships depend on mooring ropes to stay alongside, but rising loads, snapback zones, and line failures make the deck one of the most dangerous places onboard. This breakdown explains how ...

Norwegian Cruise Line says “prevailing winds” caused a collision between the Norwegian Epic and a pair of mooring points at a pier in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. The ship, which left Orlando for a ...

Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 ship broke from its moorings due to strong winds in Italy on Friday. The cruise line had anticipated adverse weather and was “in the process of taking precautionary measures ...

The video shows the ship lurching towards one mooring point and sinking it into the water. A Norwegian cruise ship crashed into and destroyed two mooring points, a video posted on Twitter shows. The ...

A new ASTM International standard covers the principal dimensions and materials of closed chocks, used for mooring, for installation on ships. The new standard, ASTM F2935, Specification for Chocks, ...

The Norwegian Epic cruise ship collided with a mooring in the San Juan, Puerto Rico port Tuesday, startling passengers. At the time the 4,100-passenger ship was on a seven-day Eastern Caribbean ...

MOBILE, Ala. >> The crippled cruise ship whose sewage-filled breakdown in the Gulf of Mexico subjected thousands to horrendous conditions tore loose today from the dock where it’s being repaired, ...

Russian cruiser Aurora, whose salvo against the Winter Palace sounded the start of the 1917 revolution, returned to its mooring in Saint Petersburg Saturday after a year-and-a-half of restoration work ...