The word "berthing" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word "berthing" to refer to the process of bringing a ship into a harbor and positioning it at its dock. For example, "After a long journey across the ocean, the crew of the ship were relieved to complete the berthing process."
Mocha's port, capable of berthing only small vessels, underwent construction improvements in the early 1980s.
The term dock is still often used in a generic sense to indicate all waterfront docking facilities, either dry basin or berthing structures.
Docks used as berthing structures include quay walls, wharves, piers, and floating pontoon docks.
If these ships required berthing structures of the type provided for conventional cargo and passenger liners and if the formula relating the capital costs of such structures to the deepest draft were applied, the cost of building an appropriate berth for such a tanker would reach a figure more than six times the cost of the Queen Mary's old berth.
Originally, docks were used for many purposes: as dry basins, isolated from the water by dikes or other means, they served as a place for building and repairing ships (dry docks); as wet basins, open to the water, they provided berthing space for ships in the normal course of traffic and cargo transfer.
Any dissent from the group could result in a bucket of ice water thrown over their heads or "pigs berthing" – spending the night on an old mattress in a dilapidated room filled with bats.
By now, we were on the Danube itself, passing under the arches of the 12th-century bridge that hops over the fast-flowing river and then berthing near the maze of the town centre.
And then, when you open the driver's door while berthing the beast in a tight parking space, so you can gauge the gap, your ears are assaulted by a warning screech alerting you to the fact you haven't engaged the electric parking brake.
Tugs are still indispensable in berthing large ships.
In addition, the relieving platform affords the sheetpiling considerable help in resisting horizontal blows from the impact of berthing ships, and in order to increase this resistance some of the piles supporting the platform are often driven toward the quay face.
In the normal design of sheet-piled quay or wharf wall, the sheetpiling itself forms the quay face, although it is generally found advisable to protect the piles from the impact of ships berthing by timber fenders.
