Category: Swing Moorings
Location: Dubai, UAE
Type of Project: Ports
Products Used: Hazelett Elastic Mooring Systems
Details of Installation: Thousands of berths stabilized across multiple UAE ports using elastic mooring systems that improved pontoon control under tide, current, and daily port-service loads.
Challenges Overcome: Scale and port loads.
Duration of Project: Multi-year.
Collaborators: Majestic Marine Engineering LLC.

The Majestic Marine (MME) project is best understood as a multi-port mooring program rather than a single-site marina installation. Majestic Marine Engineering LLC designed, manufactured, and installed floating berths in 20 fishing ports around the UAE, with Hazelett elastics used to stabilize the pontoons and the total berth count exceeding 3,250. That scale matters technically. A one-off dock system can be optimized around a single exposure, berth mix, and maintenance crew. The Majestic Marine UAE project instead required a repeatable mooring approach that could be deployed across a wide set of port layouts while still controlling dock motion, maintaining berth alignment, and keeping structural loads within a predictable operating envelope.

Public information from Majestic Marine Engineering LLC adds useful depth to that story. Majestic says it has installed pontoons for more than 5,000 berths across the Gulf region and internationally since 2007, and its marina/manufacturing division describes an in-house elastic anchoring concept designed to tension marinas for all tide levels using helical anchors and elastic rods. Even though the Hazelett does not publish a full load schedule for each UAE installation, public sources describe that the Majestic Marine UAE program sat inside a contractor ecosystem already geared toward serial marina deployment, high berth counts, and engineered floating infrastructure rather than simple local dock work.

The operating environment also helps explain why elastic mooring would be attractive at this scale. Etihad Credit Insurance states the country has 12 commercial trading ports, 310 berths, and cargo capacity of 80 million tonnes, while Abu Dhabi Ports describes its Community Ports network as infrastructure serving fishing, commercial, and recreational needs. In this kind of setting, floating berths are not just exposed to occasional weather loading. They also see the daily combination of tide change, vessel movement, wake energy, service traffic, and repetitive connection-point loading that gradually wears out rigid systems and increases maintenance demand.

A representative public example from the same UAE fishing-port sector makes the technical challenge easier to visualize. International Coastal Management’s Umm Al Quwain Fishing Harbour Expansion case study describes floating berths for approximately 400 commercial fishing vessels, supported by hydrographic survey, numerical modelling, a 500 metre primary low-crested breakwater, a 250 metre groyne, and a 200 metre revetment. Whether or not that exact harbour formed part of Majestic’s 20-port portfolio, it shows the class of problem these installations are solving: large berth counts, working-vessel operations, constrained harbour geometries, and the need to control wave climate and navigation safety together. The Majestic Marine UAE project fits that same technical pattern, where mooring has to function as part of the infrastructure system rather than as a secondary accessory.

That is where Hazelett’s elastic mooring approach becomes important from a technical standpoint. Hazelett’s published product materials say its elastic rodes stretch smoothly under wind and sea loading to eliminate the peak forces of rigid chain systems, and that commercial DockMaster configurations are typically installed under pre-tension so loads are distributed more evenly across the mooring layout. Hazelett also states its elastic systems reduce peak loads at dock-to-anchor and cleat-to-anchor connection points by approximately 50 percent. In a multi-year, multi-port deployment like Majestic Marine UAE, that type of load management matters because even modest improvements at each berth can compound across thousands of berths into lower fatigue, better pontoon stability, reduced maintenance intervention, and more consistent performance under changing tide and operational loads.

Seen that way, the Majestic Marine UAE project is a strong technical reference for port and fisheries infrastructure. It demonstrates how Hazelett elastic mooring systems can be used in a programmatic rollout where berth volume is high, installation conditions vary from port to port, and the owner or operator needs a solution that can be repeated without accepting the load spikes and loose platform behavior commonly associated with rigid systems. The most important engineering story is not a single headline dimension. It is the fact that the same elastic-mooring logic was applied successfully across a large, working network of UAE port facilities over multiple years.

• Hazelett states Majestic Marine Engineering LLC installed floating berths in 20 fishing ports around the UAE using Hazelett elastics.
• Hazelett states the total berth count across those ports exceeds 3,250.
• Majestic public information state it has installed pontoons for more than 5,000 berths across the Gulf region and international markets since 2007.
• Majestic public profiles describe a pontoon production facility spanning roughly 9,000 square metres and a workforce of about 300 staff, indicating contractor capacity for multi-year, multi-site delivery programs.
• The project duration is best characterized as a multi-year rollout rather than a single construction campaign.

• Etihad Credit Insurance says the UAE has 12 commercial trading ports, 310 berths, and cargo capacity of 80 million tonnes.
• Abu Dhabi Ports says its Community Ports serve fishing, commercial, and recreational needs.
• DP World says Mina Al Hamriya combines fishing industry and cargo operations.
• International Coastal Management says the Umm Al Quwain Fishing Harbour Expansion delivered floating berths for approximately 400 commercial fishing vessels.
• The same case study identifies a 500 metre breakwater, 250 metre groyne, and 200 metre revetment.
• Hazelett says its DockMaster systems can be configured in multi-rode arrangements with high load capacity.
• Hazelett also says its elastics can reduce peak connection loads by approximately 50 percent.

The Majestic Marine UAE project demonstrates the value of elastic mooring in a part of the marine market where scale is the technical problem. When thousands of berths are distributed across working ports, the design objective is not simply to keep each pontoon afloat. The objective is to manage motion, reduce connection-point shock, hold geometry through tide and daily vessel activity, and keep maintenance from becoming a system-wide cost burden. The public record supports that framing: Hazelett’s elastics were used across 20 UAE fishing ports, and the berth count exceeded 3,250.

For Hazelett, this is a persuasive case study because the engineering logic just makes sense. Elastic systems do not remove load, they manage it more intelligently by stretching under peak demand, sharing force more evenly through the mooring layout, and reducing the severity of shock loading that rigid systems transmit into anchors, cleats, and floating structures. In a multi-year UAE rollout handled with Majestic Marine, that translated into a repeatable stabilization strategy for thousands of berths in operational port environments, supported by broader UAE port infrastructure context from Etihad Credit Insurance.