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's orbit around Earth is elliptical. At perigee â its closest approach â the moon comes as close as 225,623 miles (363,104 kilometers). At apogee â the farthest away it gets â the moon is 252,088 miles (405,696 km) from Earth. On average, the distance from Earth to the moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km). According to NASA, That means 30 Earth-sized planets could fit in between Earth and the moon. That wasn't always the case. Scientists think the moon formed when a massive Mars-sized object collided with the young planet.