A system and method for storing, deploying and retracting cables, wherein the cables are those used to connect a docked ship with onshore facilities, such as water, electricity, and telecommunications. The system comprises one or more of a cable spool, a cradle and a support for moving and managing the cable spool. The system enabling the relatively rapid deployment and retraction of cables with minimal personnel compared to prior art systems.
B65H 54/44 - Arrangements for rotating packages in which the package, core, or former is engaged with, or secured to, a driven member rotatable about the axis of the package
B65H 55/00 - Wound packages of filamentary material
B65H 75/14 - Kinds or types of circular or polygonal cross-section with two end flanges
B65H 75/20 - Skeleton construction, e.g. formed of wire
B65H 75/24 - Constructional details adjustable in configuration, e.g. expansible
B65H 75/42 - Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material mobile or transportable attached to, or forming part of, mobile tools or machines
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