An Assessment of Hands-Free Mooring

MITL completed a project for the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation seeking to assess a new Hands-Free Mooring technology which is being studied for rollout throughout the Seaway system. The study sought to establish base rates over recent years for negative vessel incidents in transiting locks and evaluated current tests of the new technology against those base rates. Also, a stakeholder interview process was executed to assess views on the new technology.