Most of cargo operations take place between a ship and a land-based terminal. Nevertheless it sometimes can be useful to transfer cargo from one ship to another in the open sea and this is called a ship-to-ship operation. One vessel will act as the terminal whilst the other one will moor.
The moon is roughly 238,000 miles away from Earth. Earth orbits the sun. Earth is roughly 93 million miles from the Sun. The Sun is the center of our solar system. The Earth's Moon is located in orbit around the Earth. There are other moons in orbit around other planets. There are many moons in our solar system. If you're specifically referring to the one that orbits Earth, then... well, that's your answer. It orbits Earth.
The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the stars in about 27.322 days and one revolution relative to the Sun in about 29.530 days. Earth and the Moon orbit about their barycentre, which lies about 4,600 km from Earth's center. On average, the distance to the Moon is about 385,000 km from Earth's center, which corresponds to about 60 Earth radii. With a mean orbital velocity of 1.022 km/s, the Moon covers a distance approximately its diameter, or