#maritime operations
- Docking operation — The technical operation and its result of securing or docking alongside; the entirety of maneuvers and structural systems used for guiding, catching, and immobilizing a light vessel or an aircraft onto a base ship.
- Docking alongside — The act of docking or securing alongside and its result; a naval or aeronautical maneuver through which a light vessel, a helicopter, or a seaplane is guided, coupled, and structurally fixed aboard a mother ship or onto a specially prepared offshore platform.